Odd things happening...

[Joe Chasan]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:22:09AM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
> I've come across a few issues where filepro responds in a way I didn't
> expect and I'm hoping someone can tell me if it's something I'm doing or
> simply something that can't be done.
> 
> 1) contrary to documentation - @sn works in automatic processing.  Should
> this be?  Basically if this is a bug that will soon be "fixed" it will break
> my code.  (I'm currently dependant upon @sn in automatic processing)

where in docs do you see that @sn doesn't work in automatic processing?
i use it all the time in automatic processing simly to differentiate 
between running clerk (@sn ne "") and report (@sn eq "")

> 2) Non-global dummy variables that are set in automatic processing are not
> holding their values between simple screen changes on the same record.  I
> thought that dummy variables would retain value so long as you were on the
> same record.  I do not do too much coding in Automatic, so maybe it's just
> something to do with Automatic?

if you are trying to save the data from one run of automatic to the next
run of automatic, even on same record, you will still need to make the
dummy global.
 
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