RE: File fields are not global?

Yes they are, but you have to make sure you didn't define a field inside a
subprocedure with the same name.

For example, I defined an external DS in one of my subprocedures and it
messed up the data on a chain to the same file the DS was defined with.

Brad

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> From: Contractor1@Parkdalemills.com
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> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:00 PM
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> Subject: File fields are not global?
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> 
> I'm chaining to a file in a subprocedure and using values 
> from that file as
> key values to another file. But when I chain the second file 
> I'm getting a
> decimal data error because the field is not populated. Are 
> file fields not
> global?
> 
> Patrick Conner
> www.ConnecTown.com
> (828) 244-0822
> 
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