Re: Pros & Cons

[Ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just something to consider.....
If you use the same names, when you CHAIN to the file before the UPDAT
the existing field  values from the file will overwrite the screen field
values. You will loose the values changed on the screen. Also, if you
allow changes to the key fields, you will need to store the old key
values in a temp. field, so you can CHAIN back to the record. 

Ravi

Tim-Bar wrote:
> 
> Here's one to toss around -
> 
> When creating a display file for a file maintenance program, is it
> better to reference the physical file fields or create fields with
> different names? If you use different screen field names you have to
> move the file fields into those fields to display on the screen and then
> move the screen fields back into the file fields before updating the
> record format. This seems like a lot of extra work. Is there any reason
> to do it this way?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Darlene Brengle
> Norsoft, Inc.
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