Subject: | Re: Text in a Query Table Field
| Date: | Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:37:21 +1300
| From: | Bob Eccles <bobeccles1@gmail.com>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-programming
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On 10/11/2017 1:51 AM, John Wright wrote:
> I have a Query as below...
>
> getCode = Query
> ANSWER: :PRIV:ANSWER.DB ;Query = GetGroupedIndInfo
>
> :APL:IndividualStoredInfo.DB | Date and Time Stamp |
> | CheckPlus |
>
> :APL:IndividualStoredInfo.DB | UniqueCode | Description|
> | CheckPlus _join1, ~UniqRef | CheckPlus |
>
> :APL:IndividualStoredInfo.DB | Object Stored Field | Masonic Title |
> | CheckPlus | CheckPlus |
>
> :APL:IndividualStoredInfo.DB | Surname | C Name | Short C Name |
> | CheckPlus | CheckPlus | CheckPlus |
>
> :APL:APLaddress.DB | UniqueCode | Home Phone | Home Email |
> | _join1, ~UniqRef | Check | Check |
>
> EndQuery
>
> In the Description Field above I have the following...
> NOT "REPLACE THIS WORDING or this record will get deleted when you leave
> this form!"
>
> This query has not been used for some time and I am sure it used to work
> ok! The query only works now if I DON'T include the NOT and the text.
>
> Any thoughts as to what is wrong with that text entry?
Hi John,
It seems to me, that the word ‘NOT’, which is a reserved word in Pdox
queries, may be interfering with your query operation.
Since ‘NOT’ is a reserved word, I try to avoid it altogether. E.g. use
the phrase ‘Don’t replace this wording…’, etc.
FWIW,
Regards,
Bob Eccles
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