On 11/28/05, Gahan, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought I read somewhere that Unidata allowed a user to associate > "un-associated" multi-value fields on the fly within a LIST or SORT > statement. > > However, never having used it - nor being able to find it in any > documentation, I'm wondering if I simply dreamed it up. > > This "on the fly" association would allow you to override the contents > of field 7 of a dictionary, much like FMT allows you to override field 5 > or CNV allows you to override field 3 of the dictionary. > > Does this "on-the-fly" association even exist?
This is in UniVerse, but I have never seen it in UniData. If not, is there a > simple workaround? Hmm. I can't think of anything for "on the fly" additions of associations. Since I'm familiar with your VAR, I'll take a guess that you might be trying to work around some VAR-delivered attributes that you cannot simply tag with an association where there is none in the delivered application. If that is the case, then I suspect that I have worked around that very same problem by creating virtual fields that point to the same data but are associated. I did that instead of new D data fields that redefine the current ones because the vendor's tools permit that through their metadata specs. You could otherwise add in new D fields directly into the dicts and make the new versions associated. I also think you should suggest this as a future enhancement to UniData since this "solution" is clearly not satisfying. Not exactly helpful, but ... Cheers! --dawn This would be for Unidata 6.09 on top of HPUX 11.11. > > TIA > > Mick > > > > Mick Gahan > Director, MIS > Metropolitan Community College > Omaha, NE > (402) 457-2402 > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. Take and give some delight today! ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
