Auto-populate a field in IUA?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:50:42AM -0400, Transpower at aol.com wrote:
>    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.

Which is easier, but I'm wondering: how, precisely, does one do a
lookup to "the previous record"?

That seems to imply an external source for knowledge, no?

Cheers,
-- jra
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