This has happened several times already. I've been working on a procedure containing an SQL report, doing frequent saves, and switching back and forth between physical view and text view. Save it, close it, come back to it and find that random swaths of code have DISAPPEARED! Colleagues with more experience than me have had the same thing happen. Has anyone else had this problem? Has it got something to do with switching views?This message has been edited. Last edited by: MaryMacLean,
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May 10, 2013, 05:59 PM
FrankDutch
Yes
If you develop your reports with the GUI you see several different containers, pe a define and a table. If you are in the table container with the GUI and you switch to text view you can change every thing between the code that starts with TABLE FILE .... And that ends with END all you enter before or after this will be lost when you go back to the gui view.
If you want to edit the whole code you can do that by opening he code in the editor in stead of the GUI.
Frank
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May 12, 2013, 05:39 PM
Waz
I think the rule should be:
Live by the point and click, be stuck with the point and click.
Use a text editor and be in control.
Waz...
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May 13, 2013, 12:00 PM
susannah
aha! this year's summit t-shirt
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May 14, 2013, 08:31 AM
jgelona
quote:
Live by the point and click, be stuck with the point and click.
Use a text editor and be in control.
Amen to that!
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May 14, 2013, 08:34 AM
George Patton
Aaah.... looks like the old farts are having a fun rant ! (I'm one of the old farts too, incidentally ..)
Old coders never die, they just keep complaining about the new stuff.
Waz...
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May 15, 2013, 03:52 AM
Wep5622
Nothing wrong with that. I'm a relatively new coder and I do the same!
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May 15, 2013, 11:06 AM
Twanette
Hear hear!
Regards, Grumpy Granny
;-)
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May 15, 2013, 02:00 PM
MaryMacLean
Thank you Frank. For the past few days I've been editing either in code or in the GUI but not mixing the two, and the problem hasn't reoccurred.
And it is a pretty good way for a newbie like me to learn the code - which I gather from the rest of you is a good idea.
