Something forgotten

[Richard Kreiss]

John,

I remembered you can do that.  What surprised me was that the dummy fields
resolved in a browse lookup "view" option screen.  I hadn't considered that
one could do this.

I sometimes modify screens, removing the dummy fields, when used in "view"
mode from a browse lookup.  Now I can resolved these fields from within the
current file, if I so choose.

Richard





> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
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> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:55 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: Something forgotten
> 
> 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
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Richard Kreiss
> > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:12 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > 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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