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Hello, The new menu application should resemble your old approach. This is meant to be a quick and beginner-friendly way to get a menu started, since the operational control center was such a common strategy on surveys. An example of a menu is found in the examples folder in 1- Data Entry under the ...

Hello, If you need more examples, you can check the CSPro Examples folder, where the CAPI Census example uses shared external dictionaries and deploy scripts. If this does not help, please attach your zipped application here or send it to cspro@lists.census.gov if it is confidential, so that we can ...

Hello, You can use WriteCase to update existing cases of an external data file. See posts on WriteCase here and here . If you want to use WriteCase() to edit a particular existing case, first load that case into memory with LoadCase() on that case's ID items, modify the item in memory that you want ...

Hello, You can open an application's .pff file in a text editor of your choice and add "ShowInApplicationListing=Never" to the [Run Information] section to make sure that the application is hidden from the user in CSEntry. More details are available at the pff properties documentation here...

Hello, Referring to this post , you can add the divider to the value set and make sure in the PostProc that the divider was not selected. You can also use a customized htmldialog for this. You might either pass in the value set as input data or hard-code the value set in the HTML file if it is not s...

Hello, here is the documentation on external data files. It has links to the documentation pages for lookup files and inserting/dropping files from an application as well. To have two apps share an external data file, add the dictionary to both as an external file by going to File -> Add Files -> Ex...

Hello, Please see this post on the forums. Make sure that you are not deploying data files in such a way that they will overwrite the user's data files. This will definitely happen if you are reinstalling. Only necessary lookup files should be deployed, and other data files can be synced in logic. W...

Hello, Have you checked the documentation page on tabulating weights? It includes links to more detailed information about how to add weight on tabulation, such as on this page . If you are running into additional errors while trying to execute the steps outlined in the documentation, please let us ...

Hello, You can use StartsWith to optimize a search of your database by making sure it only searches through relevant cases. The "where" clause only filters the cases that SelCase has already found, your "StartsWith" needs to be after the dictionary name in the SelCase function, a...

Hello, Is this field protected? Trying to move into a protected field without setting a value set can cause problems. If not, could you post your application or more details on what the dictionary variable and logic look like, so we can tell why else it may be getting an out of range error in the pr...