@ud doesn't catch what you'd think it would

[Mike Fedkiw]

So the @bd will update if I change something on a record from a processing in a separate file doing a lookup to it? 

The term batch update confuses me. 

Mike 

On Sep 24, 2014, Scott Walker <ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com> wrote:
>
>
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>> Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list
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>> Subject: @ud doesn't catch what you'd think it would
>> 
>> So after all of this, I decided to check something, it seems as
>though
>> all the 09/15/14 dates on the reports were probably accurate because
>I
>> was dropping all of the thems that were tagged deleted. When I went
>> looking into the invy file through IUA, I was starting at the
>beginning
>> of the file, like record #1 but that file is so old, everything I
>looked
>> I saw with different dates were actually tagged deleted now and not
>> included in the report.
>> 
>> Now I have no idea exactly what process I may have run that actually
>> updated everything on 09/15/14 but apparently something I imported or
>ran
>> updated all of the active items @ud on that day.
>> 
>> As for the useless @ud field,I just tried adding a few items to an
>> invoice and then took a look at the items through IUA in the invy
>file.
>> Guess what, the @ud field didn't change at all. BUT, if i actually
>change
>> something on that record from within IUA, I see tha @ud instantly
>change.
>> 
>> What use is the @ud if it can't catch changes to the records in a
>file.
>> 
>> All I do when I change something like the on hand is do a lookup to
>that
>> inventory record and then something like
>invy(97)=invy(97)-xinv(20);write
>> invy;return, well something like that anyway.
>> 
>> Thanks for all of the reply's today, at least it helped me figure out
>> that I was going in a direction that's just a dead end for what I
>needed.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>
>Mike,
>
>Also check @bd which is the last batch update of the record.
>
>So by check @bd and @ud you can get anything that was directly update
>today by a user and anything that was batch updated today by some
>process.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Walker

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