Auto-populate a field in IUA?

[Transpower at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/3/2004 9:43:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jeremy at plunketts.net writes:

> When users are adding records through IUA, is it possible to auto-fill 
> one of the fields from a global variable?
> What I want to do is this:
> on the first record, users will enter a date.  On every record 
> thereafter, the date field will be filled with what they entered on the 
> first record.  They will, however, be able to enter a new value, which 
> would then be echoed in all subsequent records.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Anderson          jeremy (at) plunketts.net
> IT Manager, Plunkett's Pest Control   Author, Multitool Linux
> 
> 

Sure.  In @wefxx (where xx is your date field) do a lookup to the previous 
record and automatically put that date in the corresponding field of the current 
record.  Alternatively you could use a global variable and set it on one 
record and retrieve it on the next.

Regards,
RWS
transpower at aol.com
www.transpowercorp.com
Commercial and custom software manufacturing for engineering and management

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