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    System Unbound

    Could someone please tell me what's the Unbound (found in System in Drag & Drop list in Design mode) is for. Is it a free field of some sort or a variable or...? When placed on a form it seems to act as a variable, placed in an emb browse seems impossible to enter data (always read only) ??? How can one use it?

    #2
    Re: System Unbound

    Hi Gaby,

    A field can become unbound when it is placed on a form and then later change the field name in table design.
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    Keith Hubert
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      #3
      Re: System Unbound

      "System Unbound" - Is that anything like "Girls gone wild"?
      Peter
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        #4
        Re: System Unbound

        Open any form in design mode, in the DragDrop list, under System you have listed in this order: Date, Unbound, PageNumber, PageXofY, Current_Order, etc... I know what Date, PageNumber, PageXofY, etc... do, but not Unbound.

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          #5
          Re: System Unbound

          Unbound just means that that field, on the form, does not belong to any variable, data field, etc. I would use an Unbound field to store data, as data reference for another form.

          In one system, in a main switchboard menu, I gathered the current user log-in, and other current session information and would store that information in unbound, hidden fields. Almost every form in the system would reference something in that menu.

          Another use, in Access, was to create a combo-box, used a data selection criteria for something else going on in the form. I didn't need to keep the combo-box selection, but reference it, so an unbound field was useful - but in A5 you're only allowed a character type-in field.

          I was able to drop an unbound field on a form, and into a browse, and both were editable.

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            #6
            Re: System Unbound

            Originally posted by Davidk View Post
            I was able to drop an unbound field on a form, and into a browse, and both were editable.
            strange because I drag&dropped an unbound field in an emb browse and could not enter any data in it: 1st) when I type a text in it the font is tiny, 2nd) as soon as I exit/move to another field the value disappears.

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              #7
              Re: System Unbound

              Gaby,
              try it again as it seems to work here....I placed an Unbound field (which is character BTW) onto a form and then on a button's OnPush I put this script--
              Code:
              if topparent:Unbound.text = "Here"
                  topparent:Unbound.text ="There"
                elseif topparent:Unbound.text ="There"
                  topparent:Unbound.text ="Everywhere"
                elseif topparent:Unbound.text ="Everywhere"
                  topparent:Unbound.text = "Here"
                else
                  topparent:Unbound.text = "Here"
              end if
              Notice I used the .text and not the .value which had problems.

              I was also able to place text into the field and leave it...upon closing and reopening the form it would disappear so it does seem to be a local variable only type field....but so long as the form remained open, the value persisted.

              I have not found any documentation yet on this--it may be in with the What's New documents---most likely in the version 8 if it is as v8 also has this Unbound system field.
              Mike
              __________________________________________
              It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
              It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
              Henry David Thoreau
              __________________________________________



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                #8
                Re: System Unbound

                Hi Mike:
                I agree with you that it works when placed on a form. However try to place it in an emb browse and let me know. It seems to me that placed on a form it behaves like a variable, so could not see a real advantage to it. However, If I can get it to work in an embedded browse it would be fantastic. When I place a variable in an emb browse and enter a value in it, the same value appears in every row. If an unbound field in an emb browse can hold temporary text like a regular field it could be very useful.

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                  #9
                  Re: System Unbound

                  Gaby... I should have looked further. In an embeded browse an unbound field is completely unstable. Font is not what is chosen - always the same small font - looks like 6pt. Text disappears on one line and appears on another when you click into a different line. Scrolling through columns, the rows you changed for the unbound column act odd - with data disappearing from columns other than the unbound column. It's like the unbound field just doesn't know what do to.

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                    #10
                    Re: System Unbound

                    Hi David:
                    Thanks for confirming. Too bad that unbound field does not work in emb browse; it could be very handy.

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                      #11
                      Re: System Unbound

                      I find the same issues as you in a browse--no clue as to what good this field is for us.
                      Mike
                      __________________________________________
                      It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                      It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                      Henry David Thoreau
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