I would move the code that updates the "paid date" field to the validation slot for "earned date" instead of the process after slot, to make it easier to compare the original value of "earned date" with the current value of "paid date". Put it in after you have determined the entered value is valid - if there is currently a validation for earned date.
If you wait until the process after slot of earned date you lose what was in the field before you edited it. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Lunt, Bruce Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:53 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] SB+ screen question Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. I agree with you - Kevin's book is fantastic! I have been using it for many years and still refer to it when I need guidance. As for the problem: Maybe I am using the wrong processing slot. What I have is something like this: LI# Award Earned Date Paid Date --- ----- ----------- ----------- 999 xxxxx DD MMM YYYY DD MMM YYYY I have the LI# field as input but do nothing else with it. I have the Award field as no input; display only. I have the Earned Date field as input with a Process After process to determine what to do with the Paid Date. In the process I will populate the Paid Date if it is not already there. I will change the Paid Date to be the same as the Earned Date if the Earned Date was changed and the Paid date was the same as the original Earned Date. If the Paid Date is not the same as the original Earned Date I will leave the Paid Date alone. And lastly, the Paid Date field is diplay only. To me, this means that I have to prompt the user for the Earned Date - I cannot skip the field until I know if they are wanting to change the field so I then will know what to do with the Paid Date. If they do not change the Earned Date then I will leave the Paid Date as it is. I also put a DISP line showing the value of the original Earned Date and the current one in the Process After for the Earned Date and it will show correctly the first time I enter the screen (after I hit enter in the the Earned Date field.) but it will show after I enter the LI# field, the next time I open the screen and skip the Earned Date field. Thanks again, Bruce -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Woodward, Bob Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] SB+ screen question Hi Bruce, It may have to do with your concept of how the work flow is going in screen and the way your process is working to control your entry. If you have access to a copy of Kevin King's green System Builder book "SB+ Solutions", check the sections in "Special Processing for Multivalued Fields" starting on page 3-145. Specifically where it talks about the fact that in an Multivalue field, the Process Before the Prompt is only executed one time for the first value, not before each value of the field. This might be where you're having the problem. I love this book, by the way!!! Thanks Kevin! BobW -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Lunt, Bruce Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:40 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SB+ screen question Hi All, I have created a new screen in SB+. The data is built into the work record and then I want to have the user be able to go through the lines one at a time in order to change a date field. The date field itself will only be able to be changed when another associated date field is not already present. I have the screen working pretty well except for something strange that is happening. That is, I can call the screen up from the menu and when I hit enter at the first line it move over to the the date to be modified. But when I exit the screen and come back into it, the cursor will not move over to the date but just down to the next line, and the next line again if I continue to hit the enter key. It never goes over to the date field, just down a line. When it reaches the bottom of the data it cycles back to line one and continues to go down the page with each enter key. Now it gets really interesting. When I exit the screen and then go back into the screen it will work correctly. And if I exit and re-enter it will fail again. It just toggles between working correctly and not working at all. I have tried to debug this by putting in DISP statements into the Process After Display (the first process is called from here) but I do not see what is causing the screen to react the way that it is. I don't know if I have explained it very well but has anybody else had this problem before and know how to fix it? 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