New record trigger

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/19/2015 4:41 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
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> As I recall, once a record is saved, @cd should equal @td and not be empty.

You recall partially incorrectly.

Yes, once the record is "saved", @cd will be filled in.  But, when creating 
a new record input processing is done before the record is actually "saved". 
  Therefore, @CD is still blank.

> The record is saved and any additional processing happens until it hits and
> end form the top down.
>
> Try this after the record is saved.
> :@cd = @td;msgbox"Student ID A"<41

That will not execute for a new record.

> In my input processing tables, the end routine is always at the top as this
> is where the processing goes.  In some tables, I test if a sub-routine
> "finish" has run, then the record is saved again and the processing
> continues from the top down.

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Kenneth Brody