Re: When did Global fields first appear?

2008-03-19 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Carey, Thanks for the reply. Yes, you are correct, by Version 4 API I mean ARSPerl built against the version 4 API libs. Here is what I am trying to accomplish... basically, I have written a filter to initialize a global field using a Set Fields action. The value is read from a parameter

Re: When did Global fields first appear?

2008-03-19 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Larry, Thanks for the details on what your doing. It does help me to understand what could be going on and to provide a few ideas on how to troubleshoot this. As far as I know the idea of a global (or window local) field is all in the client layer. I do not believe the server does anything

Re: When did Global fields first appear?

2008-03-19 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Carey, Thanks for the troubleshooting suggestions. I'll let you know what I discover. I appreciate your time. Larry On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Carey Matthew Black wrote: Larry, Thanks for the details on what your doing. It does help me to understand what could be going on and to

When did Global fields first appear?

2008-03-18 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Folks, I think I have an API version incompatibility. Can someone confirm that ARS version 5 was when Global fields were first introduced? I have check the various documentation sets and the version 5 set is the first mention of Global fields that I could find. In version 4, the

Re: When did Global fields first appear?

2008-03-18 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Larry, I doubt that the Global field idea is where the hang up is. I would guess that it is more likely a 'Date' only or 'Time' only, or some other data type before it is a field ID range that is an issue. But in fairness... some pretty bizarre behavior is hard to understand too. Can you be any