Hi!

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>Hello,
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>When appending a record in a table, that has a default value for a field, the GETFLDSTATE(-1) function returns the number "4" for the fields that have been changed by the default value function.
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>I used SETFLDSTATE(lnFieldNumber, 3) in order to set the field state to 3 (appended, not changed). This worked in VFP 6, but not anymore in VFP 7.
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By many reports SetFldState() function did not worked properly in VFP6 too. If some particular call of it worked in VFP6, this probably was not reliable (as you see now).

>Note that this does not work only if the field is changed by the default value of the table (it must be a database table).
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>Is this a bug in VFP 7, or is this a change to the function? Is there a workaround?
>The reason I need this function to work is, that I do not want any changes to be detected by a simple append.
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Well, why you need this? You can make a view, open it with NODATA option and append recrd to it - this will cause no any default values from the table definition apply to the view fields. Tell more details, and probably we will be able to find some other solutions. I know SetFldState() is needed in VERY rare situations and neve heard it is used in production.

>Thanks for your help in advance.