>>>You're going to think I am crazy, but:
>>>
>>>I have a control on a form bound to a field in a table. The user selects a customer name and I put in the customer primary key into this invisible control's value property. When I save, all of the controls bound to this table save properly EXCEPT the CustPKey--I get nothing. I checked its Value just before saving (txtCustPKey.Value)--it's correct. I save--get nada in that one field only. I have checked every property and value I can think of. What would prevent a bound control from writing to the field in the table??? ARGH!!@!
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>>
>>>John
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>>check controlsource. also make sure you're not setting that value before you create the new record (if using buffering) -- otherwise it'll go to the previously active record
>
>David:
>
>This thing is driving me CRAZY. Here's the whole deal: I am trying to
>create an invoice--simple enough, right? I generate an invoice #, the
>user inputs (or selects) the date, salesperson, customer name. I have a
>text control, txtCustPKey, that is marked .Visible = .F. As soon as the
>user selects the customer name, I grab the Customer Primary Key:
>THISFORM.txtCustPKey.Value = Customer.CustPKey. When I save, I get the
>invoice #, date, and salesperson, but I get nothing for the CustPKey.
>One line before before the TABLEUPDATE, I check the following:
>
>WAIT WINDOW "CustPKey:" + STR(THISFORM.txtCustPKey.Value) + " " +
>THISFORM.txtCustPKey.ControlSource.
>
>I get the following result:
>
>CustPKey: 3 InvHead.CustPKey
>
>One line after the TABLEUPDATE, I ask the following:
>
>WAIT WINDOW STR(InvHead.InvNo) + STR(InvHead.CustPKey) +
>STR(THISFORM.txtCustPKey.Value)
>
>I get the correct invoice #, a zero, and the correct customer #. I am
>beginning to lose the big picture down here. I have deleted the control and added it back in. Nothing works. It's gonna drive me to drink. Any other thing for me to check???
>
>Thank you, as always, for kicking in.
>
>John

How your TABLEUPDATE() knows that THISFORM.txtCustPKey.Value going to InvHead.CustPKey. Actually you must issue some REPLACE command before TABLEUPDATE() to put value into field.