Odd things happening...

[Tim Fischer]

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Tim Fischer

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> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: Tim Fischer
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Odd things happening...
> 
> 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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