Re: Newbie forms 3.0 question of the week...

patinoj_at_merlin.incae.ac.cr (Jose Patino) writes:

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> Their are no differences between CURSOR_FIELD and CURRENT_FIELD, the

Ah but there are :-)

> CURRENT_FIELD is included in Forms 3.0 for compatibility with previous
> versions. The manual recommends that you use CURSOR_FIELD instead.

current_field just holds the field name. cursor_field has block_name.field_name. Using current_field can cause problems if you have two fields with the same name in different blocks.

Regards

Ian

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