IUA record sequence

Nancy Palmquist nlp at vss3.com
Thu Jul 21 08:05:22 PDT 2005


Shuman, Mike wrote:
> I know that filePro will use 'blank' records before
> it creates new records. 
> If I have blank record numbers 1 thru 100, it
> appears that filePro will use number 100 first. Then
> 99, 98, 97, etc.
> Normally not a problem.  However, I have a user that wants
> their process to use record number 1 and then 2, 3, etc.
> Is there a way to force filePro to do this?
>  
> Michael L. Shuman
> Technical Support Specialist, ADP
> Plant Protection & Weed Control
> Kansas Department of Agriculture
> mshuman at kda.state.ks.us
> 785-862-2180
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> 

Mike,
The trick is to sort any purge function so that it deletes the records 
in descending record number order.  Then the add function will add in 
increasing record number order.

Nancy

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