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    #16
    Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

    Cool!

    -- tom

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      #17
      Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

      This thread leaves me with the newly introduced glorious idea that:

      For each sort order in an embedded browse, you need a field in the table dedicated just for that!

      I don't know how I got along all these years without it!

      By the way, you don't (and perhaps shouldn't) dim query, query.filter etc. These are system variables.

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        #18
        Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

        G has a good point about dimming the query.filter, query.options, etc.

        The query object is global. It's various properties are available to you without declaring them in your scripts.

        -- tom

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          #19
          Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

          Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
          By the way, you don't (and perhaps shouldn't) dim query, query.filter etc. These are system variables.
          Hmm... I got that right out of some sample code in Dr. Wayne's XBasic book, page 80. That's also the only place I've seen those variables dimmed as shared.

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            #20
            Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

            I don't think there is harm in that, it just seems unnecessary.

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              #21
              Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

              G,
              For each sort order in an embedded browse, you need a field in the table dedicated just for that!
              Are you implying that it is possible to move records up and down in regards to how they display without having such a field?? Maybe by manipulating the record number, but this has been brought up in the past and everyone else seems to feel that a field used specifically for this purpose is the easiest way to do it (by everyone I mean from the several posts I had found regarding this).

              Take my screenshot for example--how would you move the product in Lane A-1 down to Lane B-2 without having Lane numbers (or NOT using the lane numbers or an additional field to do it)?? Psudocode is all I am asking for really.....


              Mike
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              It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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                #22
                Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

                Are you implying that it is possible to move records up and down in regards to how they display without having such a field??
                The question was not about moving records.. was about sorting..
                But, even if you want to actually move the records, you can.. easily..I do that in my calendar program all the time.
                There was a thread over a year ago about moving records. I attached a zip file showing how you can do it.

                The logic behind a field to sort a table escapes me. In order to give that field values in a certain order, you have to do just that, establish a certain order. If you can establish a certain order, then what's the point of having that field?

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                  #23
                  Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

                  Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                  Late to the feast but should this portion
                  Code:
                  if vCatNow <> vCatPast
                  	srtCounter = srtCounter + 1
                  end if
                  be
                  Code:
                  if vCatNow <> vCatPast
                          srtCounter = 1
                  else
                  	srtCounter = srtCounter + 1
                  end if
                  Yup! Thanks Stan. I was mistakenly thinking all in the category would have the same sort number and the succeding category would be incremented. I completely missed this statement in Connies first post:
                  ...So for each category group, the ItemSortNo starts over again at 1.
                  .
                  Mike W
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                    #24
                    Re: Update Query for Groups of Records

                    Hey, no big thing. This is a group effort, correct?
                    There can be only one.

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