RE: Subfile question - Position To functionality

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/14/2016 10:35:05
AM:

Question for the group. I have the need to add "position to"
functionality to a subfile program. In this scenario, my subfile
has one field which is
a bin location in a warehouse. The one field could look something like
"OVER-1A". I want the user to be able to key in just the letter "O"
in a field on the subfile screen and have the subfile display starting
with the records that begin with "O" and going from there. Is it just
as simple as doing a SETLL with the "O" as the key and it will read
the records from there on or is there more to it than that?

Yes, it is a simple as that. I do such partial key positioning
all the time and it works just as you've described it. However, I don't
use a field in the subfile as a position-to field in this case. I use a
position-to field in the subfile control header format. But, there is
nothing that says you can't do it from the subfile. The only difference
is in how you get that value back from the screen.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark