[ic] how do I access the active-item data variable with ic 4.8.6

Bill Carr interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Dec 11 15:48:00 2002


On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:05, stjohn wrote:
> I am currently trying to develop a product/item specific news component
> based on Ton Verhagen's very good news component e.g. news related to a
> specific item/product as opposed to just general news. What I would like to
> do is display news down the right hand side of the html page that is
> specific to the item that the user has clicked on. I have modified the news
> component to include an item-code which I can use to relate the news article
> to a specific item, however I need to be able to determine which item is
> being displayed on the screen so I can filter my new database table for
> those specific news articles - how do I access this data, is there a global
> variable that is set to represent the data I am looking for or active item ?
If it's the flypage try [item-code].

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