Associated fields question

[Jaime Perry]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> --- Jaime Perry <jaime at hoovercs.com> wrote:
>
>   
>
> The description of what you are trying to do is not
> totally clear to me.  
I know, it is not easy to explain. I retyped my initial post quite a few 
times trying to get it to make sense.

> However, I believe that if you
> want to use the @af in selection processing you need
> to sort on the associated field, and associate that
> sort with your output format.  The easiest way to do
> that would be to just enter the associated field name
> as the primary sort on the output format.
>
>   
I do have a sort built on the associated field.  As far as I can tell, 
this part is working fine.  My problem is determining which instance of 
a record I am processing as I process the records.  If  I have a record 
with 5 associated elements, that record will (should) be in the index 5 
times.  If I turn the debugger on for that record only, the debugger 
starts 5 times which is good.  However, @af is always "1" so I cannot 
tell if it is the first, second, whatever time I am hitting that 
record.  I would expect @af to be "1" the first time I encounter the 
record, "2" for the second, etc through the end.  If it did that, I can 
just use an array and say jobnumber[@af] and be golden.


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