>>I have a very general form for entering Instructor information. The table fields are Lastname, Firstname and Company. The index is Lastname+Firstname+Company and is set to primary. This is very handy because FoxPro detects if a duplicate already exists when adding a record which I trap in a Valid method.
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>>My problem though is like this.....I delete a record...oops wrong one...I try to add it back in....the record already exists error is triggered. I have SET DELETED ON and I've confirmed this in the debugger. Am I missing something or do I have to code a work around for this type of case. If the latter some examples would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Thanx
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>>Colin Magee
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>What you can DELETE, can be RECALLed...
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>RECALL (scope) FROM (alias) ect.
The primary key does not care if a record is deleted or not, it still is in the dbf.
In your valid routine I would add something like


SET DELE OFF
IF SEEK(namestring)
if deleted()
recall
else
*your duplicate found message
SET DELE ON
RETURN(0)
endif
ENDIF
SET DELE ON
RETURN