VB Script

Sometimes you may need to perform custom data validation or data processing for an object. The Script Editor enables you to access the Script Assistant so that you can specify your own Visual Basic Script routines for these special circumstances. These scripts will run after the data is processed according to options defined on the Transforms tab of the Data Sources property page.

The Script Editor is accessible using one of the following methods:

Select Scripts from the Edit menu (for access to all VBScripts).
Click next to the VB Script option on the Transforms tab of the Data Sources property page (for modification to template objects).
Click next to the VB Script option on the Human Readable property page (for modification of human readable characters in a barcode object).
Click next to the VB Script option on the More Query Prompt Options dialog (for query prompts).

For more information on processing or validating data using VBScript, see Using the VBScript Transform.

This topic is about using Visual Basic Script to modify an existing data source whose type is embedded data, database field, date, or time. If you want a script itself to be the data source for an object, you should set the data source type to Visual Basic Script on the Data Sources property page.