System-maintained field weirdness

[Bruce Easton]

Nancy Palmquist wrote Friday, October 19, 2007 2:55 PM:
> Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:39:41 -0400):
> > 
> >> On a system running filePro 04.05.08, I am trying to track down why a
> >> certain file occasionally has duplicate records.  One oddity is that
> >> the duplicates will have proper and logical @cb, @cd, and @ub values
> >> but @ud is blank.
> >>
> >> What could cause this?
> > 
> > My first thought would be:
> > 
> > Creating the records via lookup-free in *report, and never updating
> > them after the initial creation?
> > 
> 
> But he said that @ub is not blank but @ud is blank.  Wouldn't they both 
> be filled at the same time?
> 
> Nancy
> 

But if the records were created from a report process and then only 
batch-updated from another report process, could that leave them 
in the current status?

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.