Tony There's a bookmarked copy of Mastering DataPerfect at www.dataperfect.info/mastering-dataperfect-bookmarked.pdf
Meanwhile, I think you missed " " around A4, try: cat.c[ "ahspix" ; apply.format[ "A4" ; P1F1 ] ; ".jpg" ] Hope this helps Robert 2009/12/9 Tony Perez <[email protected]> > Hello Group, > > My DP skills are very rusty. Ralph's book is buried somewhere in our garage > after I moved from Texas to Northern California and am in need of a > "jump-start" on a new app. > > I am building a one panel app with the following fields: > P1F1 - a G9999:I to store picture #'s > P1F2 - an A13 to store a filename for a picture in the current > record to be formulated to result in "ahspix0000.jpg" > > I have tried the following formulas - neither one works: > 1. cat.c["ahspix";P1FI (Selected, of course);".jpg"] - every > record I create returns "ahspix.jpg" in that field ignoring the numbers > > I then thought I needed to convert the field to a text field and tried: > 2. cat.c["ahspix";apply.format[A4;P1F1];".jpg"] which returns a > "Word not Recognized" Error Message. > > I look forward to any thoughts on possible fixes. > > All the best to all, > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > -- Robert Pollard Information Habitat: Where Information Lives http://habitat.igc.org/ [email protected] 1.212.864.3156 http://friendfeed.com/climatechange3
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