Re: Repopulation of Record Group

hi

You can add the populate_group procedure in the when-window-active trigger at the form level. when you open the new form and add data and return back to the old form this trigger should fire

HTH
Arvind Balaraman
Wayne Marsh wrote in message <8bqj8m$gv4$1_at_testinfo.cs.uoguelph.ca>...
>I wonder if anyone can help me on this one.
>
>I have a project maintenance form which uses 2 LOV's for lookup purposes.
>Since each LOV involves several thousand records I have set the automatic
>refresh option to "no" to shorten the response time. Occasionally the
lookup
>table does not contain the information sought and a new record has to be
>added; this is done by opening another form in a separate session to add
the
>desired record, ie Open_Form('Form1',ACTIVATE,SESSION). This is done in a
>When-Button-Pressed trigger. Of course since the autorefresh feature on the
>LOV is disabled the underlying record group must be repopulated to ensure
>the LOV is current. If I try to add a call to the Populate_Group function
in
>the trigger after the open form command it does not work and in fact no
>command seems to work in the trigger after the open form call. The work
>around I'm using is to add another button for users to do an explicit
>populate group but this is not very satisfactory.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Wayne
>
>Wayne C. Marsh
>Director of Research Services
>University of Guelph
>222 Reynolds Building
>Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
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>
>
Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 19:46:39 CEST