>I have a view that displays table results (viewgrid). In order to have access to all fields in the primary table (incident) when printing, I create a very simple select command:
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>select incident.* ;
> from viewgrid, incident ;
> where incident.inc_id = viewgrid.inc_id ;
> into cursor printjob
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>I would think that printjob would retain the fields in the order of viewgrid, but this is not happening. It seems to be in the natural order of incident.
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>Is there something wrong with my select command? Should I be handling this differently?
There is no guarantee that data will be SELECTed in any particular order. Visual FoxPro may decide to use a particular order, as it deems best (i.e., to optimize the query). If you need data in any specific order, 'tis always best to explicitly include an ORDER BY clause.
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