browse lookup

[Richard Kreiss]

I have one file that is that accesses a memo file and displays the memos in
a fashion similar to Act.

Since there are only a limited number of lines available on screen, not all
the memos are displayed. The user can Press L to bring of a browse which
will display all of the memos associated with the particular record. Because
the size of this file has gotten extremely large and many of the memos are
old, I have created an archive qualifier.

Since I'm using dummy fields to display the memos through lookups in order
processing, I can easily handle displaying both current and archived memos
on the screen.

I'm wondering if there is a way to have my browse display the current and
archived records in the same browse window. I know I would have to use a
process to fill dummy fields which would be displayed in the browse window.
The only thing I can't figure out is if it would be a method of looking at
records in the archive after the current records have been selected?

At the current time I will probably set a variable "is_archive" to a <Y>es
if there are records in the archive file. I will have to give an option when
displaying current memos in the browse window to allow the user to switch to
the archive file and review those memos. This is probably the easiest way to
program this but not the most elegant.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net