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Terry,
If I understand your problem correctly, you could change the program to
load to two subfiles at the same time. Subfile 1 contains your data and
no comments. Subfile 2 contains your data and the comments. When the
users want to see the comments, just switch subfiles. Numeric fields in
these subfiles are formatted alpha fields for display. On the comment
lines, all the alpha fields that do not apply are blanked out. You
could do the same thing to the fields on the second line of the subfile.
Subfile 1 with no
comments
Field Field Dec
Position
Name Len Typ Pos From To
Text
IMSLS 15 P 2 94 101 Month to Date Sales
Amount
ICLAS 2 A 102 103 Item
Class
IUMS 2 A 104 105 Stocking Unit of
Measure
IUMP 2 A 106 107 Purch Unit of
Measure
IUMCN 11 P 5 108 113 U/M Purchase to Stock
Conv
IITYP 1 A 114 114 Item Type (0,1,2,3,4,5,...User
Def.) 0=P
ILEAD 3 P 0 115 116 Days Lead
Time
IVEND 5 P 0 117 119 Primary
Vendor
Subfile 2 loaded with file field info and comments
Field Field Dec
Position
Name Len Typ Pos From To
Text
IITYP 1 A 114 114 Item Type (0,1,2,3,4,5,...User
Def.) 0=
Item type comment
1
item type comment
2
item type comment
3
ILEAD 3 P 0 115 116 Days Lead
Time
IVEND 5 P 0 117 119 Primary
Vendor
Subfile 2 with SFLDROP
Field Field Dec
Position
Name Len Typ Pos From To
Text
IITYP 1 A 114 114 Item Type (0,1,2,3,4,5,...User
Def.) 0=P
hantom,5=T
Item type comment
1
item type comment
2
item type comment
3
ILEAD 3 P 0 115 116 Days Lead
Time
Hope this helps. I also hope the spacing doesn't get messed up.
Terry Owen wrote:
>
> I was fixing a subfile at work that has some odd characteristics. The
> reason I was working on it was that it had a standard 2 line subfile but
> the sfldrop keyword wasn't there. I added it, it worked.
>
> So far so good, but then it was returned to me from QA for a clearing
> thing. When I started looking at it in more detail I saw that if in a
> preceding screen the user chose to see comments from a different file, the
> lines were just added to the field name for the first line in the subfile.
> Since you have no way of knowing how many comments might be added, there is
> no way for the sfldrop to work predictably. (If you do press F1 for more
> info, you get the second line alternating with the comments from the
> additional file.)
--
Dave Murvin
DRM Enterprises, Inc.
davem@drme.com
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