If you go to Concomp, and try this . . . .
R> connect Concomp
R> browse using FormExpressions ord by emplname
OR
R> edit using FormExpressions
ord by emplname
. . . and then start paging through the records, you'll discover the variables being updated on the form are from the previous record, not the current one. If you use the Edit Using command, the variables will update, but only after you go into an editable field and change some data in it. And, of course, if you are using the "browse using" command, that's not an option.
On the other hand, if you go into R:BASE 6.5++, connect the version of Concomp that came with it, and try the form YrsEmp (which, like the form, FormExpressions, in the R:Base 7.0 version of Concomp, uses variables that are formed by concatenating first and last names and city, street, and zipcodes), you have no such problem:
R>connect Concomp
R> edit usi YrsEmp
In my own databases, I've converted Rbase 6.5++ forms to RBase 7.0 and see the difference in how R:Base treats form variables. I've tried using an EEP with a "recalc" command, but that doesn't seem to work. In fact, nothing I've been able to do so far seems to solve the problem -- and it's a serious one as far as I can tell!
Does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps I'm missing something that's very simple....
-- Lou Hirsh
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Louis L. Hirsh
Director of Admissions
University of Delaware
116 Hullihen Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: 302-831-1209
FAX: 302-831-6905
