FIND mode not working

[Syed Shahul Hameed Mustaffa]

Dear Mark,

Thanks for this mail.

I sincerely apperciate your points. I understand that as much as you
abide by the best practices, it is less hurting later on.

I won't have enough time to re-write the logic that complies with the
best practices.
As I told you, I've no hands on experience in MPEIX PH. I just have
some knowledge of which command does what and some insight about how
the code control flows.

If you've some time, pls point out some best practices and some hints
about how you'd re-write this code (pls. look in one of the threads
for the attached code file).
Whereever possible and applicable, I'll apply.

Best Regards and Thank you so much,

Syed

On 7/22/05, Mark Stewart <markstewart at consultantsclub.biz> wrote:
> 
>  Syed,
> I just wanted to point out that that you shouldn't jump
> in to the find procedure on every screen. I know some guys love the 
> the control but it goes against the grain enough that after a 
> while it can turn a system to crap. There have been many 
> times where I've had to do it but I'm trying to point
> since your a newbie that it's not the best practice. I've been
> places where people thought that if you didn't code the find 
> procedure by hand you couldn't find anything period :). That 
> went for the update producedure too. Darren made reference to the
> PowerHouse box. I think it's a lot easier to be out of it then 
> in it.
>  
> You should only start coding paths and finds if like Darren said
> your're 'outside the PowerHouse box'. With time you'll see what he
> means. I'm not a big Axiant guru so I'm no!
 t sure
 how much it 
> really inherited from PH as far as best practices go. 
> I'm more on the BI side these days so my family won't starve 
> to death on the streets.
> Mark
> Dear Mark, Joe,

I'm new to PH and AXIANT as well.But I have a person with
> PH knowledge with me.
The application that I am migrating is a complete
> application running
on MPEIX. I'm not the one who wrote it and the customer
> (our sister
concern) has none of the programmers who wrote it. I am
> just
migrating it with the Axiant Migration tool which is doing much of
> the
work, except for such things as OCCURS fields in a table, STRUCTURES
and
> FIND procedures as such.

I'm not writing any fresh code. Do you mean I have
> to change all these
FIND procedures? In that case, what change should I
> probably make to
the code file that I have attached on the other thread ?
> Can u throw
some more light on what you mean by 'construct find
> procedure
indirectly'?

Thanks & Regards,
SYED.

On 7/21/05, Mark Stewart
> <markstewart at consultantsclub.biz> wrote:
> Syed, 
> 
> It's always best
> practice to contruct your find procedure indirectly if
> possible. Since you
> are rather new to PH you might be tempted to dive into
> those procedures
> and forget about the 4GL magic that PH gives you. Access
> statements will
> dictate your code results. If you are going down the road
> of hard coding
> every single find and path then you're in for a rocky road
> ahead. Make
> sure your access statements match your find and path logic.
> 
> Mark
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