Passing a variable into a GOM function

[[Ti...]]

I want to test something where after a scan the part number of the scan gets automatically placed as the part number for the report. Currently we type this in.

Is there a way I can input a variable into the ?????????? field below:

 

part_number = '111222'

# User interface for entering in parts to scan
DIALOG=gom.script.sys.create_user_defined_dialog (content='<dialog>' \
' <title>Part Number</title>' \
' <style></style>' \
' <control id="OkCancel"/>' \
' <position></position>' \
' <embedding></embedding>' \
' <sizemode></sizemode>' \
' <size width="247" height="361"/>' \
' <content rows="9" columns="2">' \
'  <widget rowspan="1" column="0" type="label" columnspan="1" row="0">' \
'   <name>label_7</name>' \
'   <tooltip></tooltip>' \
'   <text>Enter Part #</text>' \
'   <word_wrap>false</word_wrap>' \
'  </widget>' \
'  <widget rowspan="1" column="1" type="input::string" columnspan="1" row="0">' \
'   <name>PN</name>' \
'   <tooltip></tooltip>' \
'   <value>??????????</value>' \

 

Thanks

[[Mi...]]

You can replace the last line of your script with:

'   <value>%d</value>' % part_number \

The Python documentation has additional information on this:
7. Input and Output — Python 3.11.4 documentation

[[Ti...]]

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Thanks, I tried looking this up, but really didn't know what to ask for when searching. The html was throwing me off. I'll give this a shot.

 

I also thought I would have to pass the variable/argument into the function call, no?

[[Mi...]]

Are you trying to get the part number out of the dialog after the user has chosen a value from an input widget? In this case I would suggest to have a look at the following article about user defined dialogs. There are multiple ways to do this, maybe you will need to write a handler function to access values from the dialog.

Scripting - User-Defined Dialogs - GOM FAQ - GOM Connect

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I export the part number of the last scan and I am trying to pre-populate the report scan so operators have less data to enter.

Below, you can see I hard coded the last part scanned as ‘111222’.

 

When the user runs this script they get this dialog and they have to enter in up to 15 numbers. 99% of the time they run the same part number as the last scan so I’d like to pre-populate it.

 

It looks like the html is overriding your method of getting this variable in to the dialog. Also, the dialog is a function within the import GOM module isn’t it, so that would need to get passed the argument ‘part_number’ wouldn’t it?

 

 

[[Ti...]]

A coworker solve this...below inputs the variable into the html. Not sure why it doesn't need to get this argument passed into the function call, but I am a beginner novice still with python.

 

part_number = '111222'

# User interface for entering in parts to scan
DIALOG=gom.script.sys.create_user_defined_dialog (content='<dialog>' \
' <title>Part Number</title>' \
' <style></style>' \
' <control id="OkCancel"/>' \
' <position></position>' \
' <embedding></embedding>' \
' <sizemode></sizemode>' \
' <size width="247" height="361"/>' \
' <content rows="9" columns="2">' \
'  <widget rowspan="1" column="0" type="label" columnspan="1" row="0">' \
'   <name>label_7</name>' \
'   <tooltip></tooltip>' \
'   <text>Enter Part #</text>' \
'   <word_wrap>false</word_wrap>' \
'  </widget>' \
'  <widget rowspan="1" column="1" type="input::string" columnspan="1" row="0">' \
'   <name>PN</name>' \
'   <tooltip></tooltip>' \
'   <value>\'

+ part_number +

'</value>' \