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Concatenate memo field from child file to parent

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    Concatenate memo field from child file to parent

    Here's my problem.

    I am not working with a set.

    A parent table has a memo field on a form. Clicking a button on the parent form adds a new record to the child table with the linking keys set properly and then opens a child form that displays the new child record with it's memo field (and other fields) in change mode.

    Saving the child record closes the child form and re-activates the parent form and refreshes the parent form layout.

    What I would like to do is append the text from the child's memo field to the text (if any) in the parent's memo field.

    I've tried posting rules and other methods that seemed like they might work using various actions, but I can't get it to work. I'm new to Xbasic, but I've tried converting actions to Xbasic, etc. It seems like what I want to do is very simple (e.g. parent-"note = parent-"note + child-"note) but I can't figure out how to "see" or change the parent memo field from an event in the child form or from a script in the field rules. I know this is probably a stupid newbie question and I appreciate your indulgence (I did search the board and found lots on concatenating memo fields, but not my problem which is probably more generic). What confuses me is that the Posting field rules for other field types work fine but the memo field seems to ignore them.

    Thanks,

    Bob Flanagan

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    RE: Concatenate memo field from child file to pare

    Hi Bob,

    Try this, I am replacing the memo field rather than adding, and using an expression to add the contents of the existing parent record to the child record, seperated with a line feed (crlf)

    a_tbl = table.open("tbl_parent")
    post.t_db = "tbl_child"
    post.m_key = "Urn"
    post.t_key = "Urn"
    post.m_filter = ""
    post.t_filter = ""
    post.m_count = 1
    post.m_field1 = "FIELD_PARENT_MEMO"
    post.m_exp1 = "rtrim(Field_Parent_Memo)+crlf()+@Tbl_Child-"Field_Child_Memo"
    post.t_count = 0

    a_tbl.post()
    a_tbl.close()
    Chris Tanti
    Technical Support

    Nuance & Fathom Ltd - The data-driven marketing agency

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