screw up?

[Paul (Pablo) Grim]

Hi listers,

I recently defined a new record structure for electronic W2 reporting to
Social Security.

The record structure has 4 or 5 fields that are duplicated.  That is; the
same data goes on the record twice for each of these fields.  At least for
my organization.  Other orgs could report different data in these fields
which is why they are available.

So, when I defined the record, I entered the same item names more than once.
I'm realizing this is probably grossly unnormalized data, but in a way it
makes sense because it really is the same data more than once on a given
record.

My question is how does Powerhouse deal with this in qtp?   eg:  if I have
an item COMPANY-NAME on the record twice and I want to do an ITEM
COMPANY-NAME INITIAL "ABC CORP" what will happen?  Will both fields get
assigned this value, or just the first one?  (seems to be the case in my
experiments).  It actually seems somewhat unpredictable depending on how I
code it.

thanks

p