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    Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

    For your review, I have creatAlphaTestdb[1].ziped a NEW folder, files, and a set.

    When I try to CREATE an IDEX over the SET, nothing happens. I can create over the files but not the SET.

    Have been trying to decrypt what is happening for a week.

    Possible clue: Looks like one of the PC's on this network, was running A5V11. Could that have affected the SET ?

    Now, no matter what folder or database I select, I cannot create an index over ANY SET.

    ???

    Lar

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    Re: Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

    The set is populated at execution.
    Therefore, it is not an indexable item.
    The primary table in the set will have the indices.
    Alpha shows the option in my configuration to create an index over a set, but it cannot, only the primary table.

    So, what index construction are you trying to build?

    If you want an index on the primary table in the set, but only want to show specific child records, a Filter on the child table is what you need.
    See our Hybrid Option here;
    https://hybridapps.example-software.com/


    Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
    You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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      #3
      Re: Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

      Larry

      Can you be specific about what index you are trying to build - fieldname / expression, table, - a few snapshots or a video?

      That exact index can be created on the primary table but not when ou try to create it through the set?

      I can build indices through the set on the primary table in your example.

      Previously you stated that this occurred in only one instance - a certain PC. Is that still the case?

      Tell me why you want to create through the set and not through the primary table.....
      Al Buchholz
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        Re: Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

        Larry,

        I can create over the files but not the SET.
        What is the "files"? Did you mean at Table, right?

        There are limit to create the Index from (base on) a " SET ". you can not see the child table's field lists from "SET"

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          Re: Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

          It appears that Ted may have had the answer. However, now, when I run the application and select maintenance on the file, I get the message... "NO RECORDS IN QUERY". I don't have a query that I know of.

          ???

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            Re: Cannot Create an INDEX over a SET

            Originally posted by nugget3825 View Post
            It appears that Ted may have had the answer. However, now, when I run the application and select maintenance on the file, I get the message... "NO RECORDS IN QUERY". I don't have a query that I know of.

            ???
            What is maintenance on a file? It's part of the application?

            Why not do these things from the control panel instead of within the 'application'?

            We have no idea what the application is doing when you select maintenance. Obviously something other than it needs to do to allow what you want.
            Al Buchholz
            Bookwood Systems, LTD
            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

            Occam's Razor - KISS
            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
            Albert Einstein

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