Form question

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Fri Aug 24 12:23:15 PDT 2007


Quoting Don Coleman (Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:14:43 -0400):

> List:
>
> Pulling my hair out 'cause I know I'm missing something.  I have a "clerk
> process which calls a form and prints it.  I need to add two fields to this
> form which is already in use.  So I copy the input table and the form to
> their own unique files so as to not interfere with current production while
> I ensure the alignment and all are correct.  I am running both the input
> table and the form from dclerk/dreport with debug and see the correct input
> table and correct form being called.  My only problem is the fields I
> re-arranged on the new form are not in their new positions, they are still
> in the old positions.  I also set the output to print to file and the new
> fields are in the old positions as well.  I remember seeing this behavior
> before but always found my mistake, usually I wasn't "calling" the correct
> path to my revised output.  Everything looks good (except my new fields).
>
> Any suggestions.

Pure speculation, based on pieces of what you've said...

This form is triggered by something other than the default "F-Form"
behavior in *clerk, and the actual printing is done via a FORM command
in the processing, and this FORM command still refers to the old name.

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