OK, lets say my Drug file (50) has 200 unwanted ZZDRUGNAME entries.
So I did a search for these and stored them in a set. (search template)
I circumvented the DEL nodes so I can delete the records.
Now I want to delete all 200 of these records and point them all to
one entry that says ZZ_DELETED_DRUG.
When I use the ^LOOP feature to stuff a @ into the .01 field, it
doesn't give me an option to repoint them to my specified record.

Besides, I think that anything that can be done through the console
should be do-able from a program without having to stand on one's
head.

Thanks
Kevin


On 11/14/05, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
>
> > The need for programatic redirection of pointers seems fairly basic.
> > I don't understand why this hasn't been provided already.
>
> But how should it work? It would be easy enough to find dangling
> pointers, even to allow the user to do a lookup and repoint to the
> selected record, but that could certainly be labor intensive, and
> there's no guarantee that there will be a "right" record, much less a
> means of identifying which one it is. If you already know what the
> pointer should be, what's wrong with using Fileman to stuff the field
> with the appropriate value?
>
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