browse lookup - spped up selection

[Dennis Malen]

Fortunately for me in this instance, I am in the same file.

Dennis Malen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Wolowitz" <howiewz at beonthenet.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>; "Kenneth Brody" 
<kenbrody at bestweb.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: browse lookup - spped up selection


> Top Posted
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> The problem with using a selection set inside a browse processing routine 
> is that the selection set always refers to the current record in the 
> current file so I have never found a way to make it useful.
>
> Howie
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
> To: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: browse lookup - spped up selection
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>> Ken,
>>
>> I do use the drop command.
>>
>> Are you saying that you can create a selection set in a file and use that 
>> selection set name as you wish in any processing and if it does not match 
>> it will be dropped.
>>
>> If that is the case that is virtually unknown by most people that I know 
>> (I probably don't know the right people.) Please note I am still on 4.8.
>>
>> In any event, even if you can do that, I don't think that satisfies my 
>> speed issue as it still has to go through processing and if there is no 
>> match drop the record.
>>
>> In my drop processing I am going through 5 conditions to determine if the 
>> record should be dropped. Will your approach speed things up?
>>
>> Also when I use:
>>
>> If: not selectionname
>>
>> do I use the full name "sel.selectionname" or just "selectionname".
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dennis Malen
>> 516.479.5912
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
>> To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
>> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: browse lookup - spped up selection
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>>> (Top-posting corrected.)
>>>
>>> Quoting Dennis Malen (Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:26:56 -0400):
>>>> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
>>> [...]
>>>> > If you have a selection set that can do it for you, then simply use
>>>> > the selection set in your processing to help the filtering process.
>>>> >
>>>> What command am I using to execute a selection set before I get to the
>>>> browse lookup processing?
>>>
>>> In your browse lookup processing:
>>>
>>>    If:  not selectionsetname
>>>  Then:  drop ; end
>>>  [... any additional processing you need here ...]
>>>
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