Hi David, The reason we use dictionaries for data entry, reports, queries and forms is so we can use the same dictionary item for all activities, thus using the dictionary as designed with a little more.
So, if part ID is changed at a site to be 6 numbers, then changing the dict item in a file once means the same change applies to all other activities. We think this is very tidy, and the unused portion of dictionaries have been used like this for a long, long time (over 30 years to our knowledge). Cheers, Kate Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd, 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: +64 9 360 5310 mobile: + 64 21 400 486 fax: + 64 9 367 0750 Email: [email protected] On 25 January 2011 03:53, David A. Green <[email protected]> wrote: > All this talk about using the Dictionary item to store extra data has > prompted this post. > > I realize in the past when the limit to the number of Opened Files in a > Basic program was a programming challenge, that doing creative data storage > might have been an necessity. But I would like to suggest we leave the > Dictionary alone, let the database use it the way it wants to and let us > create our own storage device for dictionary related data. > > Thoughts? > > David A. Green > (480) 813-1725 > DAG Consulting > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: + 64 9 360 5310 Mobile: + 64 21 400 486 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
