Possibly SOLVED Re: Now *here's* an odd problem with dclerk

[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:02:24PM -0700, Jeff
> Harrison wrote:
> > The result of making an assignment to a real field
> is consistent, and
> > has been as far back as I can recall. Remember
> that filepro will only
> > write to the record automatically when it is at
> the end of the update
> > mode. In IUA for example when you bring up a
> record, filepro runs the
> > auto processing, but no write occurs so the field
> will "appear" to
> > have a different value than what is actually
> stored. When you press
> > "U" to update, auto processing runs again, and
> when you press "SAVE"
> > input processing runs, the information is actually
> written, and then
> > auto processing runs again.
> >
> > Both selections and indexes will respect the
> values that are actually
> > stored in the fields - not what "appears" to be
> stored.
> 
> Got it.  In this case, of course, since the fields
> were poked in by a
> batch process, we *know* that they "really" contain
> the data we wanted.
> 
> On a related topic, is there now (or has there ever
> been :-) a
> *reliable* way to figure out *which* of those 3
> passes of automatic
> processing is being run?
> 
> (On reflection, it's actually *2* passes: the last
> one is in the same
> context as the first: "INTOVIEW" as opposed to the
> second one which is
> "INTOEDIT".  And yes, Scobey, I'm looking at you. 
> :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 

I don't think so - Why would you need to know what
pass is being run?  Just avoid doing assignments in
auto processing and make your life easier.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports


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