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hammo1j
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Folks

The following code produces 2 outcomes under 7.6.2.

-SET &DUMMY = &ME_WE.(AND(%,ADMIN,FSU,ME,OTHER,WE)).Restrict to. ;
-SET &DUMMY = &POW.(AND(FIND PLACEOFWORK IN LSTPOW)).Place of Work. ;


The FIND correctly produces a single select list and an option to make no selection which correctly returns a FOC_NONE.

However the list produces a multi select list with an option to select all. ie the option that should have been produced with OR.

Can anyone how this code works in previous releases? Either way I am going to report it as a bug.

Anyone know a workaround?


Server: WF 7.6.2 ( BID/Rcaster) Platform: W2003Server/IIS6/Tomcat/SQL Server repository Adapters: SQL Server 2000/Oracle 9.2
Desktop: Dev Studio 765/XP/Office 2003 Applications: IFS/Jobscope/Maximo
 
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GCohen
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I made it &DUMMY1 and &DUMMY2 so the second case didn't overwrite the first and with a FILE that exists and it worked just fine.


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hammo1j
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Hi Gerry

I've since remembered that AND and OR are SYNONYMS in autoprompting, so, sorry, yes it does do what it says on the tin.

The problem in amperautoprompting is that we have 4 options to cater for:

            Select All Option in List
                  No             Yes
Single select     (1)             (3) 
Multi Select      (2)             (4)


And only 2 are catered for

(1) equates to .FIND(
(4) equates to either .(AND(FIND or .(OR(FIND

To cater for 3 which is very common we have to do:
FILEDEF HOLD DISK BASEAPP/HOLD.FTM (APPEND
-WRITE HOLD all

TABLE FILE ..
ON TABLE HOLD

FIND(... IN HOLD)

I looked and AND and thought logically it should cater for (3) but it doesn't which I think is a lost opportunity because the alternative is quite messy...



John


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