>>>I have a Grid, configured for Parent-Child, which displays data from the Child file in a specific order. It works fine and as I move to some other record in Parent table, the Grid refreshes accordingly.
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>>>When I move to some other record in Parent table, in some case, I want to display the Child records in some different order. So I change the ChildOrder and RelationalExpr properties of the Grid. As soon as I refresh the Grid, it displays no child records. I tried resetting the LinkMaster property also and also resetting the RecordSource of the grid by
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>>>Thisform.ChildGrid.RecordSource = Thisform.ChildGrid.RecordSource
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>>>method to prevent recreating the grid agin.
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>>>What is wrong here? Is there any fixed order in which the RelationalExpr, ChildOrder and LinkMaster properties must be changed?
>>>Any suggestions will be highly welcome.
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>>Problem is not the order of them, old realtion is alive. Setting relationalExpr doesn't automatically set it.
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>>.Recordsource = ''
>>select parent
>>set relation off into child
>>.ChildOrder = 'NewOrder'
>>.RelationalExpr = 'NewRelation'
>>.Recordsource = 'child'
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>>Cetin
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>Hi Cetin,
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>Does the VFP use "set relation" internally to set the Parent-Child grid? Actually I wanted to avoid "set relation" in an existing piece of code and was trying this alternative. Seems I will have to abandon this method.
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>BTW, can this work with partial key match? The child table index key has parent table's primary key field and some child table fields in the index expression. What will be the RelationalExpr in this case?
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>Thanx for the info.
>Hitendra

Yes it sets relation internally (if not a relation is set).
I don't understand why you want to avoid it.
Yes it works with partial keys.
Cetin