>Hi Nadya,
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>>Just curious, do you know a way to disable record validations and field level validations, when replace statement is fired?
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>>Basically, these are our validations:
>>iif(vartype(oValid)<>"O",.f.,iif(oValid.nLocked=0,.t.,FieldRule()))
>>So, if we want to disable them, we set oValid.nLocked to 0. However, still this portion of the code fires each time. Do you know a way to disable them completely?
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>To my best knowledge there isn't a way to disable field or record validations without deleting them.
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>B.T.W. your validationrule might also be written in the following manner:
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VARTYPE(oValid)="O" AND (oValid.nLocked=0 OR FieldRule())

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>Or construct something like:
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(VARTYPE(_DisableRule)="L" AND _DisableRule) OR FieldRule()

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>Where the default field rule is fired when the _DisableRule variable does not exist.
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>This would be more or less the same way I would try to disable the fields and record rules temporarely.
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>Walter,

Hi Walter,

It's always good to have fresh eye! Yes, I always suggested to use better form of IIF, but in this case I failed. Thanks for highlighting this for me, I'll do the changes, as you suggested.