Silvio....convert the variables to public application object or form properties and try it again :-)


>Variables are locals. The program deals with financial calculations: in the specific case it calculates monthly leasing payments based on a few input variables.
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>>>Where are these variables coming from that you're trying to do a REPLACE >>with? Could this be a scope issue? I don't believe that what you can update >>in the view has anything to do with what is actually displayed.
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>>I have a grid based on a p-view. For simplicity let's say that the grid has 3 columns and that the view has some 30 columns. If I append a record to the view I can only replace fields that are also contained in the grid, otherwise I get an "Unonwn variable xxx" ie
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>>*The following code works:
>> select view
>> append blank
>> replace fld1 with val1,;
>> fld2 with val2,;
>> fld3 with val3
>>* so far so good but if I add a line like:
>> replace fld4 with val4
>>*I get an error message like "Unknown variable val4 in..."
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>>* If I use the following code all goes well:
>> append blank
>> scatter memo name recobj
>> with recobj
>> .fld1 = val1
>> .fld2 = val2
>> ...
>> .fld30 = val30
>> endwith
>> gather memo name recobj
>>
>>As the above code solves the problem, mine is just a curiosity: why one snippet works and the other does not? Any feature by design I don't know about? Or is it a confirmation that thuesdays are not my day and that I run out of luck on mondays?
>>
>>TIA
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>John S. Koziol
>"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. "
>--- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
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