Two more things 1. Make sure you're not testing your results while you are in the Forms Design mode - your data is "read-only" until you save the form and test it from outside the designer.
2. The default value only kicks in when you ENTER USING the form or you EDIT USING and ADD a new row. Sami ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 913-915-1971 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:34 PM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Forms problem > Now I've added a new field to the table referenced by the same > form with a date format. I've defined in Rbase 7.1 a dbedit field with a > default value of .#date. In this field nothing shows up. Is there a bug or > am I doing something incorrectly? If the field is of type DATE, you do NOT need (and should not use) a format mask on the field. R:Base will format the field according to the current date settings. If the field is of type TEXT (suitable for masking), then I don't know if you can use a date value for the default. -- Larry
