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    #16
    Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

    Donald

    Had a look at your sample attached to the other post.

    I would say what you are experiencing is not a bug.

    When the form first opens, the base filter on the form is activated and Shippingticketno 4 is shown as it should be.

    If at that time you load the companion browse you will see that the order is 4 3 2 1.

    Now when you go back to the form, and then enter a new record and then cancel it, the form now shows shippingticketno 1 which is the last record by filter in the table. When you cancel it goes to the last record which is shippingticketno 1.

    If you change the base filter to ascending and open the form - shippingticketno 1 will be shown based on the filter. Enter a new record and then cancel, then the last record in the filter will be shown which is shippingticket no 4 - which is what happens.

    Now back to the invert(shippingticketno) as the base filter, if you use query by form and say select shippingticketno 3. That will be shown on the form, then if you call the companion browse it will only show the result of the query which is shipping ticket No 3. Just as it should. Now when you switch back to the form it again will load to the query which is shippingtickeno 3.

    It seems to be working as it should.

    FWIW
    Tom

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      #17
      Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

      Tom,

      Thanks so much for your reply.

      In you last paragragh, if you go back to the browse and back to the form again, the query does not hold. Can you go back and forth between the form and the browse, say a few times, and the query stays put?

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        #18
        Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

        Donald

        I now see what you were seeing. When you QBF and say select 3, then go to the companion browse, it shows 3 and only 3 - then return to the form and then go back to the companion browse and it shows all - the query did not hold

        I tried it in Version 8 and Version 9 and the query does hold.

        I would suggest that you send this in as a bug using your sample program and see what Alpha has to say about it

        Tom
        Last edited by Tbaker; 01-21-2011, 02:20 PM.

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          #19
          Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

          Tom,

          I suspect if you go into V8 or V9 and try to enter a record and then immediately cancel it you will remain on the current record (shipping ticket 4).

          If you want to play with it further, as I said before, if you change the sort order on the form to ticket number ascending, all problems go away. Something is up with the form when descending order is set.

          I am glad someone sees what I have been experiencing, I have killed days working on this issue. Is it difficult to submit a bug report? Do you know if they looked at with any urgency?

          Thanks again, Don

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            #20
            Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

            Originally posted by DORaymond View Post
            Tom,
            Is it difficult to submit a bug report? Do you know if they looked at with any urgency?

            Thanks again, Don
            Got to Help menu on top, go down to "send a bug report"

            Give them description of problem & how to recreate it. Also send them your form & DB. Sometimes I get answer in day, a time or two I was showed a work around or how to correct my programing. I think once I never heard back on.

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              #21
              Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

              Don

              You are right about the record holding in Version 8 and Version 9 when entering a new record then cancelling it. The record number that was up at the time of the enter record is still the record you come back to.

              I see Jack has given you instructions on how to send in a bug report.

              Tom

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                #22
                Re: Lost Query - Bug or Expected

                Well I sent in a bug report, and I think the reply was obvious and does not address the problem. I don't know what to do now - I am stuck.

                Here is Alpha's response:
                Hi Donald,

                The form defines its own query (look at form properties - filter/order
                - there is an order defined) - This order is causing a query to be run when the form is opened. If you remove the form order (both filter &order blank) then the form preserves the order when the F8 key is pressed.

                Thanks,
                Cian Chambliss

                This does not address the issue of the query not holding when toggling between the companion browse and the form, unless he is trying to say that you cannot use a descending sort for the form.

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