RE odd browse display problem

Barry Wiseman bwiseman at optonline.net
Fri Jun 20 06:40:27 PDT 2008


Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> Richard Kreiss wrote:
>> I have a browse lookup to a file called wood_cars.  This file hold the makeand model of resident cars along with other information
>> The model field in the file is defined as (15,lowup).
>> When one looks as the record, the model, in the case below is ES350 & ES250.Note the Caps.
>> However, when displayed in the browse, the s is lower case.
>> Anyone know why?
>>
>> ---------------------------------┐│ Year         Make         Model        Plate #      State│ |--------------------------------+    2008      Lexus           Es350           123456          MD││ 1991      Lexus           ES250           CBR 3886         MD│
>> Richard Kreiss
>>
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> Richard.
> 
> The fact that it is a browse lookup tells me you are in a different file. 
> FilePro would be using the local edits not the edits from the source file to 
> handle the data.
> 
> My guess is that the local edits have a edit called lowup that is handling the 
> data differently than the lowup edit in the live table.
> 
> Remember if you make an edit with the same name as a global edit, the local edit 
> will supersede.

Nancy, that was my first thought too, but lowup is a built-in, not a 
global, edit.  The tester in deddef confirms that it is not superseded 
by a local file edit of the same name.


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