Re: Pros & Cons

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:52 10/26/1998 , Ravi wrote:
>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. 

Not necessarily. I haven't done this in a while, but I think the DDS keyword is 
RTNDTA. You specify it at the record level, and then you can reread the display 
to restore the data values after you have retrieved the database record for 
update.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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