Auto-populate a field in IUA?

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeremy Anderson wrote:
> 
> 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.

You can use @UPDATE to populate the field(s) from global variables, and
set those variables upon saving the record.

For example:

               declare save_date(10,mdyy/,g)
   @update:
          If:  date_field = ""
        Then:  date_field = save_date

               .... update the record ...

               save_date = date_field
               end

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