prevent deletion working erratically

[Jeff Harrison]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Jean-Pierre A. Radley <appl at jpr.com>
> To: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: prevent deletion working erratically
> 
> Jeff Harrison propounded (on Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:56:25PM -0800):
> | > From: Jean-Pierre A. Radley <appl at jpr.com>
> | > 
> | > | 
> | > | In a database I have set [Y]es to prevent record deletion from screens 
> that 
> | > are not password-protected; it works as expected.
> | > | 
> | > | In another database, I can nonetheless delete records from such 
> screens.
> | > | 
> | > | What am I overlooking?
> | > | 
> | > | --
> | > | JP
> | > _______________________________________________
> | 
> | 
> | I'm [Not] sure I'm understanding what you are saying.
> | 
> | What do you mean by "In a database..." do you mean within 1 filepro 
> "file"?
> 
> I do not call it a file when it is a database consisting of a directory
> comprising many files, including key, prc.input, screen.1, index.A, etc.
> :-)
> 
> | Say you have a file called "customer" and within this a screen 
> called
> | "A" where you have saved [Y]es for record deletion.
> |
> | Are you saying that you have another file called "customer2" and a
> | screen called "A" and record deletion is not working there?
> |
> | You of course need to make sure that you have [Y]es for record
> | deletion saved in the 2nd file/screen as well.
> 
> Quite the contrary. The [Y] option is set in order to PREVENT record
> deletion from a screen, while [N] DOES NOT PREVENT record deletions.
> 
> In "customer", Y does prevent deletion from screens so tagged, whereas
> in "customer2". deletion is allowed regardless of whether the screen 
> is
> tagged with Y or with N.
> 
> 
> -- 
> JP

Tomato, Tomahtoe :-)  I think I understand you now - it sounds like you have a corrupted screen.  I would suggest that you delete it and re-create it.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHExport and JHImport.