Cameron, I don't recall doing any drug import. My current vista was from the distributed disks about 1.5-2 yrs ago. I think that it came with it.
And frankly, I think that the FOIA vista we just worked on in DC came with entries in file 50 as well. I'd have to check to be sure. Thanks Kevin On 11/1/05, Cameron Schlehuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The VistA FOIA has no entries in either file 50 or 50.7, so your entries in > file 50 came from somewhere else. > > If you have imported entries to files 50 and 50.7 from somewhere else, and > the import process was not carefully choreographed (VA FileMan by itself can > do some of the work, but the process has to be just right) the pointers will > be way off for most of the entries. You may want to delete all the pointers > and re-knit the relationships. > > Cameron Schlehuber > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:25 PM > To: Hardhats Sourceforge > Subject: [Hardhats-members] How to clean dangling pointers? > > I am having a try at getting my pharmacy package up. > > I have found that my file 50 (DRUG file) is full of pointers in the > field PHARMACY ORDERABLE ITEM (this is a pointer to file 50.7, > PHARMACY ORDERABLE ITEM), that point to invalid entries. > > Apparently my PHARMACY ORDERABLE ITEM file was clear out for the FOIA > release, but the pointers to the records from the DRUG file were not > cleared. Thus I have thousands of dangling pointers. > > Is there a standard, Fileman, way of having the system scan a file and > check for dangling pointers? It could evaluate all pointer fields, > and see if the IEN they refer actually exists ($data()>0). If not, > then clear the value. > > If not, then I think I will write one for my use. It seems that it > this functionality should exist. > > As it is, the dangling pointers are causing a crash in my pharmacy system. > > Thanks > Kevin > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
