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    Found bug, need work-around

    Unknowingly, I discovered a bug which Peter Wayne confirmed. It occurs when you have a lookup&fill nested within a lookup&fill operation.

    For example, I have an application that applies a formula to calculate a price for finished handmade jewelry. One of the sections allows for the selection of each of the raw materials from a pop-up list. If the item you wish to enter is not on the list, you can celect to enter the new raw material "on-the-fly". This brings up a "raw material" form. On this form, you are asked the name of the vendor of the item. It then brings up a pop-up list of vendors. If the vendor is not on the list, you are sent to an "enter vendor" form. So far, no problem.

    However, after entering the new vendor for the new item, no matter what you do (select with mouse, hit enter, type-in ID#) the new vendor ID will NOT be allowed in the new raw material form. You can save the new raw material, but it will not have the vendor information saved with it.

    So, now I need to find a way to enter a new raw material "on-the-fly" and potentially a new vendor "on-the-fly" AND have all the data saved.

    I tried to place a button on the "price jewelry" form that would bring up the "enter raw material" form, but for some reason it brought up the application's main menu, instead. Peter informed Selwyn of the problem, but no news or suggestions have issued forth, as yet.

    So, if anyone has encountered a similar problem (and has solved it), please let me know. All (I repeat, ALL) suggestions will be appreciated.

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    RE: Found bug, need work-around

    David, in my application I don't permit the users to update the lookup tables during data entry. Have found that they often enter multiple names for the same entity, spelled and punctuated differently. Leads to lots of confusion.

    Instead, I designed a series of "supporting lists" which they can update between data entry sessions. These use simple forms to maintain the different lookup tables. Validation routines can be added here to improve the integrity of the lists.

    During data entry if they discover they need a value from a lookup table that's not there, they have to stop and then update the related list. Sounds clumsy, but actually works quite well especially after they've got most of the supporting lists built.

    -- tom

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      #3
      RE: Found bug, need work-around

      David why not use the values within the forms. I have found that these lookup forms have been very troublesome in A5V4 and now use xbasic. By using xbasic you can enter the proper information within the tables. I do this often with no problem. I think what is happening is that your lookups cannot resynch on the new data since they have already queried the tables you are now updating. Queries, I believe are static.

      1. Use msg boxes to ask the proper questions and then place the ui variables into you tables and forms
      2 Read directly from the forms you are entering data into using Session Variables and then place these values into the proper forms (tables)

      Hope this helps Jack

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        #4
        RE: Found bug, need work-around

        Tom and Jack, thank you.

        Originally, I did not allow edit and new data from the loopups. However, after testing with a few of my clients, I realized that many/most jewelers/artists don't think in linear terms (ducking while awaiting punch thrown from avid A5/jeweler). This leads to much frustration when they attempt to price their work (which is already a point of serious difficulty with many/most of them -- still ducking). If nothing can be done, I will resort to not allowing new records from the loopups.

        As for Jack's suggestion, I don't allow for nearly as much info in the pricing screen as I want entered in the raw material screen. So while pumping the data through variables and into the proper tables will work nicely, I'm afraid that it would yield incomplete data.

        Thanks, though, for the suggetsions. I will keep working on it and I'll report back if there is a solution from Alpha.

        David

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          #5
          Re: Found bug, need work-around

          If nothing can be done, I will resort to not allowing new records from the loopups.
          Has this been addressed? and how can I prevent nested lookups from being edited? I really like lookups, but have realized that theres a problem. I also think it has to do with re-syncing the query.
          Does anyone have any simple solutions?
          I know this thread is old and concerns an issue in V4 so here we are at V12 has this been fixed? Am I doing something wrong?
          NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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            #6
            Re: Found bug, need work-around

            Just to clarify (or mystify, lol)
            I have a lookup, when you call it you can select an item in the grid which is great but if there is a lookup on that item - now we have a problem. You cannot edit a secondary grid entry that has a look up with out a fail, and from there the original look up succeeds with an insert from the nested lookup.

            I dunno, if you could just disable editing a nested grid that might be a workaround but....it would be nice to see just a straight forward heres your grid - make an edit and the changes reflect.

            I have tried turning off caching the grid in all respects - which has no effect as well as tried different browsers.
            NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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              #7
              Re: Found bug, need work-around

              Charles, you probably should re-post in the forum corresponding to the version of Alpha Five you are using. Nested grids in AA probably have nothing to do with lookups in A5v4.

              In my own work, I avoid nesting lookups. For me a lookup source is simply a supporting table. If the supporting table needs its own supporting table there's usually something wrong with my design because I'm storing data redundantly; a practice I try hard to avoid.

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