CSPro Users Forum

Do you need the max length allowed for the dictionary variable or the length in digits of the number of the current value?

Can you post the application? Use the pack application tool to create a zip file and post it here.

Most of the CSPro developers are using Windows 10 and we haven't seen that behavior. Perhaps you could post the video on Google Drive, Dropbox or YouTube so we could see it.

If the list of names and codes is small you can simply use a set of if statements: if NAME= "Josh" then CODE= 1 ; elseif NAME= "Show87" then CODE= 2 ; elseif NAME= etc... If the list of names is long you can use a lookup file. Create an Excel spreadsheet with the names in one col...

The idx file (index file) is only needed to make lookups fast. You should never need to edit it. You can simply delete it and open the data file in CSEntry and the index file will be recreated. To edit data files you can either edit manually by opening the file in CSEntry or do automated (programmat...

You should be able to set the proxy configuration at the system level (in network settings). There are no settings for it in CSPro.

Localhost will only work on your phone if you are running the webserver on your phone. Localhost means that you want to connect to a web server on the local machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost). If you are running the server on a PC on the local network you will need to use the IP addre...

Ask if is a convenient way to skip a field. You could accomplish the same thing with a skip but in many situations ask if is easier to use and makes the code easier to understand. We have found that often the way a questionnaire specification is written is to provide a positive condition - ask the q...

The type value is how CSPro can tell one record from another in the data file. If the value type is blank then CSPro won't be able to tell which record is which type. This is explained pretty well in the help if you search for "Record type". By default the length of the type value is 1 dig...

Look in the online help for CSPro 7 under sync and also at the synchronization from logic example in the CSPro 77 examples directory.