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Re: DDS screen: how to ensure field keyed is numeric for alpha-described field

  • Subject: Re: DDS screen: how to ensure field keyed is numeric for alpha-described field
  • From: "James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:51:38 -0700
  • Organization: Progressive Data Systems, Inc.
 
Joel,

Try data type/keyboard shift value of 'D' - digits only.  This will work
even though the field is defined as alpha.

> "Stone, Joel" wrote:
> 
> Our database cust# is an alpha field, but we only want to allow
> numeric entries into the field.
>
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