Something forgotten

[John Esak]

This isn't surprising. It's the reason you can do @wlf processing while
looking at data from another file...  Isn't it?  Isn't that what you mean?

John 

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m] On Behalf Of Richard Kreiss
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:12 PM
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> Subject: Something forgotten
> 
> I was adding a browse lookup to one a clients file and when 
> <V> was pressed
> to display a screen, I noticed that the person's name was 
> being displayed on
> that screen even though it is a dummy 'field being filled by 
> auto processing
> in the file being browsed.
> 
> There are 2 more name fields on this screen which needed to 
> be displayed.
> On the above screen, the dummy field letters were visible.  
> The dummy field
> for the person's name was resolved and I realized that this 
> is the same
> dummy variable I am using in the current file which is again 
> filled through
> auto processing. Since I am doing a lookup in auto processing 
> to check for
> the presents of an open item in this file, if there is one, a 
> lookup is done
> using the name code to fill the 2 dummy variables using the 
> same 2 letters.
> The names appear on the screen.
> 
> In this particular case, there should only be one record in 
> the browse.  To
> insure that if there are 2 or more open items, I am going to 
> add if:@bk="V"
> and handle the programming to insure that the correct names 
> appear when the
> screen is displayed.
> 
> Summary: One can resolve dummy fields on another file's screen, from a
> browse, by defining and filling the dummy fields in the current file.
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
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