Re: re triggers

Booth,
Use the file to define an external data structure, then use the offset provided
from the trigger to move the data to the Data Structure, perform update, and 
move
the DS back to the After area, and you're done. And NO hard coded numbers.
BTW - make sure you use short cryptic data names, so it looks complicated! <vbg>
Bob

boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> Thank you.  That seems like the right solution.  I appreciate it.  I had
> looked at it, but turned away because it required hard-coding column
> numbers, so far as I could see.
>
> I was afraid someone would find out about it and report to everyone here
> that I was hard-coding column numbers, and I would be humiliated before my
> peers.
>
> In <35986717.111D@gate.net>, on 06/30/98
>    at 12:18 AM, Nelson Smith <ncsmith@gate.net> said:
>
> >If you use the "Before" trigger rather than the "After" side, you will be
> >looking at the actual record data that is about to be updated.  Just
> >change the fields to whatever you want them to be (in the "after" part of
> >the record parameter that comes into the trigger). Then let the record
> >update normally.
>
> >Note: this requires you to use the Allow Repeated Change option on the
> >ADDPFTRG cmd.
>
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> Booth Martin
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