Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Alias Not Found Message
Message
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00006545
Message ID:
00006675
Views:
51
>>>>When I run a standard report on a Cursor, I get that message. The cursor is updateable, since I create it using the USE DBF AGAIN ALIAS method after an SQL creation.
>>>>
>>>>When I suspend the calling program, the cursor is selected and appears just fine. I know that wizard reports have problems with this, but this isn't one.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>Yes, look at your report very carefully. One mis-labeld field can cause this error. You could have 99 valid aliases & one tucked away where it is hard to find that is bad.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>Tom
>>
>>You got me started on the right track, anyway. I've scrapped the old report and created a new one. With one field on it, there is no error (hooray!).
>>I recall now having problems once or twice in the past where a field was hidden behind band separators, etc., that caused such problems. It's probably something like that.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bruce
>
>
>Yep, like I said, 99 good ones & 1 bad hidden way in the back... (g)
>
>Tom

I actually got a late-blooming brainstorm (nice metaphor?) and looked in the bad FRX as a table. There was an old variable listed in there that had no V/H position, and was causing the problem. A hypothesis is that it had something to do with the fact that I converted the report from 2.6.

Bruce
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform