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

[Bob Stockler]

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An Alien filePro file mapped to overlay the two files would
allow deleting a record in the main file and writing it to
an archive file with the filePro 20-byte header intact.

If a field "Date_Archived" was added to the files before
this was implemented, a process run on the main file could
fill in that date for all records selected to be archived,
then the process on the Alien file would move those records
to the archive file.  Or, if that might change @BD and @UB,
and you didn't want to do that, if the criteria for selecting
records to be archived was based on a field in the record,
the selection could be made by the process on the Alien file.

Bob

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:24:09AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
| 
| 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
| 
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