Re: Best practice for displaying an empty subfile

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What works best for my users when the subfile has no records is to fill 
some description field with a relevant phrase like

FIELD = x'32' + 'No records to display.  Are all of your filters on?';

 and write that one one subfile record.



On 2/17/2011 4:06 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> I have an program that displays records in a subfile and it works great,
> until there are no records to display.  In that case it crashes with a
> predictable RNQ1255.  I set off the subfile display indicator before I
> EXFMT when I have no records to display so I am wondering if there is
> other logic I need to add so I can at least display the empty subfile
> screen.
>
> Thanks