>I seem to recall having problems in the past trying to use "Thisform.Whatever" property references in certain places in a SQL call, so, now I tend to do this tecnique to get the form properties into local vars and then using the local vars in the SQL:
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>lcLookupTable=this.cLookupAlias
>lcLookupField=this.cLookupField
>lcWhereClause= lcLookupTable + '=' + tcLookup
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>Select &lcLookupField From &lcLookupTable Where &lcWhereClause Into Array laLookup
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>Is this the best practice, or can I just directly reference the form properties in a SQL?
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>Something like this...
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>Select (thisform.cLookupField) From (thisform.cLookupAlias) where (thisform.cLookupField)=tcLookup Into Array laLookup
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>That just looks like it won't even work. But it would keep me from creating all those local vars.
You can't reference object properties directly in the UPDATE - SQL command - it's actually documented in the help. AFAIK you can reference them directly in the other 3 - SELECT, INSERT, DELETE.
Regards. Al
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