forms 3 SYSTEM.FORM_STATUS

HiYa

I was wanting to know if a form was in
enter query mode or not, so I thought that the system variable would give me the correct answer. I have put a message :

message(:SYSTEM.FORM_STATUS);

in a couple of places to inspect the result and I get NEW in the first place and QUERY in the second place.

so I would have thought that I was in enter query mode.

However, if I enter some info and press accept, I get a message from the form asking me to enter the info for one of the mandatory fields.

I odn't get this if I explicitly do F2, enter the query, then press F3.

So I think that I'm not in the mode that I think I'm in ..... I am not sure if I should just place an explicit enter_query in the startup trigger to land me in enter_query, of if that will nest the enter query mode.

Help

Thanks

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