You can't do that

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Sep 1 08:13:16 PDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:15:01AM -0700, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> Example: I have seen many situations where the
> programmer has allowed the deletion of a record such
> as an an inventory record, when it is still referenced
> in another file such as an order file. Ouch.

You're looking for engine-enforced referential integrity.

I'm not sure that's possible given filePro's "database engine code is
actually in the UI program" structure.

Cheers,
-- jra
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