Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen

[flowersoft at compuserve.com]

Not when you look at it on the browse screen, Ken. 
That is precisely the reason 25+ years ago I found the need to use "write"
in automatic processing.
Remember, only the user clearing the items will be on screen 9.  All the
other users will be using screen 1, at least in my example.
So, the processing that changes field 5 from "" to "Y" and from "Y" to ""
only takes place if the user is on screen 9 and it only gets written to disk
if the user presses "U" to change whatever the browse show as the value for
field 5.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 4:38 PM
To: flowersoft at compuserve.com
Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
Subject: Re: Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen

On 10/16/2010 11:03 PM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
[...]
> Automatic processing:
>
> 	If: @sk="brky"
>      Then: switchto 1; goto JUMP1
> 	If: @sn="9" and 5=""
>      Then: 5="Y"; end
> 	If: @sn="9" and 5="Y"
>      Then: 5=""; end
> JUMP1 If:	...		'other processing if any
>      Then:	...
[...]

OMFSM.  :-)

Please tell me you're not advocating modifying real fields in automatic 
processing.  You do realize that every time you look at a record on screen 
9, you will see the exact opposite value of the 5 on the screen, right?

-- 
Kenneth Brody