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    I am trying to append some fields of the current record displayed on a form to another table. Using the append operation, I am using recno()=current(recno()) in the filter of the transaction table, but it always appends all records. And it will do it a number of times even though Unique is selected.
    This is being used in a button on the form. Tried using current_record = alltrim(str(recno(),10,0)) with
    :append.run("append_absent","BETWEEN(RECNO(),"+ current_record+ "," + current_record+")")


    What's up!!

    Thanks
    Duane
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    RE: append

    Duane, Not sure what your looking for but you might approach the issue by loading a vaiable with the record number and then using that variable name to define your append filter.

    tbl = table.current()
    record = tbl.recno()

    The two lines of code above if run before the append would load the current record number into Var->record. If your append operation now used var->record in its expression I think it would do what you need?
    Jeff

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      RE: append

      Thanks Jeff

      I will try that.
      What I was trying was a button on a form that that ran a saved append operation. The form displays about 65 fields of the current record. I filled out the genie and used the 'recno()=current(recno())' in the transaction filter. I had figured it would append the selected fields of the record showing on the form.
      That didn't work, it appended the proper fields as advertized but appended all the records of the table.
      So I took out the filter expression and put the other above current & recno code (original post)( code taken from a 'print the currrent record' script) and put it in the action of the append button. It also appended all records, not just the current one.
      ALso both methods didn't seem to care that I had 'Unique' selected.

      The variable idea sounds neat, I'll try it tomorrow.

      Thanks again
      Duane

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        RE: append

        Duane, I don't have my books handy, but isn't uniqueness determined in the destination (master) table? i.e. append each source record to the destination table but only if the destination table does not already have the same record.

        Your message made me think (perhaps mistakenly) that you thought that 'unique' referred only to records which met the append filter criteria in the source table... and I don't think that's right.

        When used with a filter I think 'unique' in the append method will

        append all records that meet the filter criteria, but
        only if they're not already present in the destination table


        Hope this helps

        -- tom

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          RE: append

          Morning Tom

          I do believe you are right about the unique. But on this append, I can hit the button 3 times and it will append all the records (275) 3 times. I go look at the master table and it has 3 sets of records.
          Maybe it will do this if the filter isn't right. I will try Jeff's variable method and try again.

          Thanks
          Duane

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