topic MsgBox Error in Macro in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151943#M29561 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In a macro I'm trying to use MsgBox function to determine if the user wants to continue with a process or not but it's returning a macro parse error. Is the following VBScript supported? If not, is there another method for evaluating user interaction?</P><P>vAnswer = MsgBox "Continue?",VBOKCancel<BR />if vAnswer = 2 then<BR /> exit sub<BR />end if</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:52:20 GMT Anonymous 2009-11-14T01:52:20Z MsgBox Error in Macro https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151943#M29561 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In a macro I'm trying to use MsgBox function to determine if the user wants to continue with a process or not but it's returning a macro parse error. Is the following VBScript supported? If not, is there another method for evaluating user interaction?</P><P>vAnswer = MsgBox "Continue?",VBOKCancel<BR />if vAnswer = 2 then<BR /> exit sub<BR />end if</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:52:20 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151943#M29561 Anonymous 2009-11-14T01:52:20Z MsgBox Error in Macro https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151944#M29562 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sorry, I forgot to add that this is in version 9.0 SR2.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:54:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151944#M29562 Anonymous 2009-11-14T01:54:17Z MsgBox Error in Macro https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151945#M29563 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You'll need parens (function style) around the arguments to return a value.</P><P>vAnswer = MsgBox<STRONG>(</STRONG>"Continue?",VBOKCancel<STRONG>)</STRONG></P><P>-Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:29:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151945#M29563 rwunderlich 2009-11-14T09:29:17Z MsgBox Error in Macro https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151946#M29564 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Oh for crying out loud.......</P><P>I wish they were all that easy. LOL</P><P>BTW, Tech Support e-mailed me back and said that MsgBox is not supported in macros and I wouldn't be able to do this. Uh huh.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:56:43 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/MsgBox-Error-in-Macro/m-p/151946#M29564 Anonymous 2009-11-14T11:56:43Z