Java Script Problem

JohnnyBravo

ListBox1.RemoveAll();
var i ;
Var Max = ActiveDocument . Sections ["Results"].Columns.Count ;
For ( i=1 ; i <= Max ; i++)
{
ListBox1.add(ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"]columns.Name);
}

Syntax error in line 3 somewhere
Can anyone see it

seamus

Sections["Results"]
may need to be
Sections

Also, last line, should
Sections["Results"]columns
not be
Sections.columns

If that's a copy and paste from your code, then tidy up your whitespace before debugging

JohnnyBravo

I dont know what the story is with it i took it straight out of a book


ListBox1.RemoveAll();
var i;
Var Max=ActiveDocument .Sections ["Results"].Columns.Count ;
For ( i=1 ; i <= Max ; i++)
{
ListBox1.add(ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"]columns.Name);
}

Even though i changed it to single quotes the same error persists
Missing ; before statement in line 3

Seth Brundle

is your listbox named Listbox1?
Is there a space between on either side of the '.' on line 3 --> ActiveDocument . Sections

seamus

Originally posted by kbannon
is your listbox named Listbox1?
Is there a space between on either side of the '.' on line 3 --> ActiveDocument . Sections

Yeah, definitely those spaces causing the problem if that's a cut-and-paste from your code.

JohnnyBravo

ListBox1.RemoveAll();
var i;
var Max=ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"].Columns.Count;
For (i=1;i<=Max;i++)
{
ListBox1.add(ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"]columns.Name);
}


It was a capital V in var Max that was the problem

However now there is a missing ")" after argument list in line four

seamus

ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"]dotcolumns.Name

JohnnyBravo

If i take out the dot i get the original error
If i leave in the dot i get the latter error

seamus

Post up or attach the full page there.

JohnnyBravo

I cant its not a web page it is a reporting tool called BRIO


I am simply trying to populate a combo box with values and that is all the code that is there

Seth Brundle

1. in the code there should be no spaces on either side of the dots
2. change For to for (lower case)

oneweb

I'm open to correction on this but aren't variables supposed to start with lowercase and functions uppercase?

listBox1.RemoveAll();
var i;
var max=activeDocument.sections["Results"].columns.count;
for (i=1;i<=Max;i++)
{
listBox1.add(activeDocument.sections["Results"].columns.name);
}

...also is this just a 'Programming JavaScript for IE' thing or will it work cross-browser? The capitalisation bangs of VBScript.

JohnnyBravo

Just a quick Query


"].columns.name);


Is this .name thing supposed to be the name of the column you should be querying