Switching Records in active form

Pat_Houstoun

It seems to me that this task should be a simple one, but I cannot find a way to do it.
The case: I am in a form (for the sake of argument, the Purchase Order form) viewing a record (for the sake of argument, Type="order", No.=3). Within the code, I have determined that I want to be looking at No.=27 instead. What I want to do, in code, is make Purchase Header No. 27 the active record in this form, without a lookup of any kind, and without opening another instance of the form. How does one replace the active record in a form?
Any help would be appreciated...Thanks in advance...

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Pat Houstoun, NCSD
President, Management Software Solutions, Inc.

Steve

Hello Pat,
I think you are looking for the following code which will switch the active record in a form.

PurchHeader.SETRANGE("No.",??the NEW NO. ??);
If PurchHeader.FIND('-') THEN
Rec := PurchHeader;

You may have to handle the xRec, but I did not test that.

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Steve Florko
NCPS,NCSD,NCDS,WSSD,WSWD
Application Development

Pat_Houstoun

I have tried virtually everything else; I thought I had tried that in several variations as well. In fact, I assume I started there.
I did put a modify and a commit before your code. Works perfectly. Many thanks.
By the way, please call me when you get a minute...

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Pat Houstoun, NCSD
President, Management Software Solutions, Inc.

mfabian

I can understand your problem. Even though the solution is extremely simple it took me quite a time until it worked:

simply program:


Get (type::order,'27');
Currform.update

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Marcus Fabian
m.fabian@thenet.ch
+41 79 439 78 72

[This message has been edited by fabian (edited 23-09-2000).]