understanding how define affects field initialized from tempo rary

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Lorry

The define to complete the status text (es, o, nknown) will have NO effect
on the emp_no item regardless of mode or what you enter in the action field.

When you enter the screen for the first time and there are no records for
the passed index value then the define should be blank. When you enter the
screen with an index value for which there are records then the define
should display the correct value based on the value of your table item for
the records that exits and blanks for the missing rows. 

When you then use Append, the define will not get evaluated and displayed
until you pass by it in the entry sequence so it should be blank until you
go past it. It will then have a displayed value based on the then current
value of the record item.

I'm confused about your confusion.

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Lorry Litman [mailto:LLitman@exchange.hsc.mb.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:44 AM
To: PowerHouse listserver (E-mail)
Subject: RE: understanding how define affects field initialized from
temporary


your replies have been helpful in making me explore/check some things that I
took for granted before, however, I'm not doing a good job of explaining the
problem and which part I'm trying to understand.
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