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  • Subject: Re: 4 - subfiles
  • From: email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)
  • Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:53:25 -0800
  • Organization: Progressive Data Systems, Inc.

Booth,

If memory serves me, your display can have 12 subfiles.

How about when you load -the- subfile, you load four of them.  That way
if a user chooses a different view, you just write a different subfile
control record?

Sort of a read once, write anywhere <g>

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> Here's a subfile question.  I'm not very good with them.  I have a
> display screen showing a subfile with 4 fields.  Each field is the key
> to a logical file so there are 4 logical files in the F-specs.  For
> clarity, lets call the fields LastName, FirstName, ExtNbr, DeptName.
>  I want the user to be able to display any one of the 4 logical files.
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