We have a PSA (Professional Services Administration) package written in MS Access VBA (MS Access 97 - 2007). Our Accounting system is written in Visual FoxPro 7. I would like to trigger a new sales order by calling the prg that VFP uses to "enter" a new Sales Order. We have the API and source code for the accounting program.
How do I trigger the prg and feed it the required information from my VBA application?
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That depends on how the API is defined. Is it just defined on the VFP level or do you have a COM class you can use within VBA?
Captain Cyrils Code is only working, if a full VFP installation is available on each PC, as "VisualFoxPro.Application"
A usual way to provide a method for VBA is to define a class as OLE PUBLIC. Then create a DLL or EXE and register it, DLLs with regsvr32 and EXE by passing /regserver.
It could be as simple as
DEFINE CLASS SalesOrder OLEPUBLIC
PROCEDURE AddSalesOrder()
* put whatever code is needed to add a Sales Order here
* For example: DO addsalesorder.prg TO returnvalue
* Return what you need in VBA, eg the new sales order ID
* finally RETURN returnvalue
ENDPROC
ENDDEFINE
Now if your Project is called MyApp.pjx the default OLE PUBLIC Class name that will result of this is "MyApp.SalesOrder" and you can do oSalesOrder = CreateObject("MyApp.SalesO
You may return values, eg a salesorder ID or whatever you need to know in the VBA code.
Bye, Olaf.
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by: jrbbldrPosted on 2008-11-01 at 14:28:53ID: 22858962
This sounds like a question for a VBA/Access forum, not a FP/VFP forum.
Since you already have (or not) the necessary API's for the VFP application, now develop your understanding of VBA/Access in how to utilize them.
Good Luck