Window display bug (AREV Specific)
At 03 JUL 2000 11:48:36AM Matt Sorrell wrote:
Hello all,
I have a vexing display issue with a window.
On my window, I have five symbolic fields that display mv data from another table. These five fields are logically associated, showing status history information.
If I flag the five fields as an AMV group, the data displays correctly until you cycle from the last editable data prompt back to the first. Then, the second value of the first field in the AMV is blanked.
If I don't flag the fields as an AMV group, the disappearing data problem goes away, but the information in the fields is doubled. By this I mean that if I have three entries in each field, the three entries are shown, and then they are shown again for a total of six entries.
Obviously, neither one of these options is acceptable, but I cannot figure out how to fix it.
BTW, we are running Ceridian's HR-1 on ARev 3.02 with Win 95 workstations, Novell 4.x network and we are using the NLM.
If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, we don't seem to be having this issue on any other window, but I think it is related to the fact that all five AMV fields are symbolic.
At 03 JUL 2000 04:19PM Steve Smith wrote:
You'll need a non-symbolic controlling field on the group. I'd also check that (a) you haven't painted another field under line two of the group and (b) a symbolic formula is responsible for the concatenation.
At 04 JUL 2000 01:01AM Curt Putnam wrote:
Matt,
I'm reasonably certain that the bug is yours. I've made so many mistakes along the lines that you describe that I've long since lost the urge to count.
Part of the problem is that a symbolic is called for every primary value, so if the symbolic returns a multi-valued list, the list will repeat for the number of controlling values.
It is often better to display such data sets (AMV stacks) in a commuter which is triggered by a softkey. The whole thing is much more controllable.