@menu in clerk form behavior

[Richard Kreiss]

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Why not use @entsel and sit on record 1 or some other unused record in that file?

Richard kreiss
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On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Easton <bruce at stn.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  The value of @td is known and can be displayed during 
> @menu, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get it on the form.  
> Without real fields nor even system fields that have nothing to do with 
> a specific record, I'm surprised that the form command is even legal or 
> produces anything at all from that trigger, but it will output the form 
> (just text that is on the form).  I was testing using 5.0.14, and also 
> tried assigning the value of @td to a global dummy field.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> On 8/23/12 10:39 AM, Scott Walker wrote:
>>> From the fp manual:
>> 
>> @menu processing is performed while the user is standing on record 0. There
>> are no real fields available.
>> 
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>>> I have an script that runs a fp process using a clerk to a virtual file
>>> with @menu to start the processing in the input table.  After adding a
>>> form command to print a page with the variables in the table, the form
>>> always prints without any variables, including the !@td field.
>>> 
>>> Is this happening since I am not actually sitting on a record, but
>>> running the process with @menu?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> 
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