Hi everyone, I have found an interesting bug.
I have just added a new panel to a variation I was make to the STE-BASE application, the DP application which is used for documenting DP STR's. For a while I have had a panel to place a note against fields. My panel had 4 real fields and a computed field GZZ9::N - PanelNumber GZZ9::N - FieldNumber A60A5 - NOTE A20::C FieldName (computed through a Datalink back to the STE-BASE.FLD panel I also have one field GZ9::N which I use to ensure that a record does not get accidentally saved if there is nothing in the NOTE field That field has a formula to see if a Note has been entered ie length[NOTE] and that field also has a range limitation 2-99, so at least two characters must be entered into the NOTE field. Becuase of limitations in DP the longest value the length function returns is 78. I decided today to add a NOTE record to the STE-BASE.PAN so I could document a Panel It had one 3 real fields and a computed field GZZ9 - PanelNumber A60A5: NOTE A12::C PanelName and again the GZ9::N field for the length[NOTE]. However as soon as I tried to create a record the value in my length[NOTE] field showed 80. I rechecked everything, and compared it to the previous. However by adding another real field to the Panel the formula works... I thought it might have been a corruption, but I found I could reproduce the behaviour in a new database. You need more that two editable fields in addition to the Alphanumeric field before the length function will function on the alpha numeric field Has anyone observed this before Regards Brian
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