empty records?

[Robert Haussmann]

Apologies for replying to myself, but one more item of interest.  Even if I change the processing to include a delete statement, the blank record is still created:

If: 1 eq ""
Then: delete;exit

Copying support at fptech.com to see if they can confirm whether this is a known issue, and if any workaround/fix exists.

Thanks,
Bob

> 
> Bruce and Jose--thank you both for your suggestions.  I think I found out
> what's going on.  The one database is used for security (contains a list of
> usernames, pw's and access rights).  We go into this with "rclerk security -s9 -
> xa -d", and then the processing inputs username+password.  The first line in
> input processing is:
> 
> If: 1 eq ""
> Then: exit
> 
> Well, it seems that in 5.8.00.08, things work as expected.  But in 5.8.00.15, this
> results in a new record being saved. (not sure when this behavior was
> introduced, as I don't have the interim versions available to test.).
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
> > bounces+haussma=nextdimension.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> > Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2018 6:32 PM
> > To: Bruce Easton <bruce at stn.com>; 'Filepro List'
> > <filepro-list at celestial.com>
> > Subject: RE: empty records?
> >
> > Thanks--I've definitely run into this before (where basically it keeps
> > adding records until you kill the process).  That's not the case
> > here--these are getting added one at a time it seems (in a day I might
> > see anywhere between 20 and
> > 200 new records).  It is the strangest thing.  I have to believe it
> > is related to the updated version....
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
> > > > bounces+haussma=nextdimension.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> > > > bounces+Of
> > > > Bruce Easton via Filepro-list
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2018 6:23 PM
> > > > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > > > Subject: Re: empty records?
> > > >
> > > > The only thing I've seen that can cause this if you have screens
> > > > that have no field on them that can be updated, and they you allow
> > > > access to users to get to any of those screens with 'Add Records' mode.
> > > >
> > > > Bruce
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 7/6/18 6:17 PM, Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone encountered an issue with fP in which completely
> > > > > empty
> > > > records are created seemingly at random?  We are seeing what
> > > > appears to be phantom blank records getting inserted into specific
> > > > filepro
> > > databases.
> > > > These dbs have run for years with no problem-the only change
> > > > recently was updating from 5.8.00.03 to 5.8.00.15 (Windows version).
> > > > I'm honestly not even sure where to start looking-as I noted these
> > > > apps ran for years (decades, really) without issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Bob Haussmann
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