great new wish list item, but how will it really work?

[Lerebours, Jose]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:24 AM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: great new wish list item, but how will it really work?
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Chason submitted a great wish list item. I voted for it being a
> "must-have". He suggests a new command like COPY called MOVE. 
> It would do
> just that, MOVE a filePro record from one database to another 
> and DELETE it
> from the original file. The difference being that system 
> maintained fields
> would be "maintained" across the move. That is @cd, @ub, etc, 
> would not be
> lost. Very important for archiving... but, the question 
> arises... How can
> you maintain the @cd for example in the new file, when the 
> record needs an
> @cd for that file, itself??
> 
> I often look at my archive invoice file by @cd to see which 
> were the very
> last records just added to it and on what day...  How would I 
> be able to do
> this if the original @cd was kept with the new MOVE command.  JOe?
> 
> I want/need your suggested command, as you do, but how can we 
> deal with the
> reality of how filePro works?  Just lose the @cd of the 
> MOVE'd record in the
> new file??
> 
> John
> 

To your wish add @md (Moved Date) and @mb (Moved By) ....


Regards;



Jose Lerebours
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