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Good Day,

  Yes you can set the filters.

1    Set ClientDataSet->Filtered = FALSE
2    Set the values for the ClientDataSet->Filter to be the filter expression
3    Set ClientDataSet->Filtered = TRUE

Good Luck.
Thanks, Nick
Borland Forever ...

Satya Kolachina wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need help to use MIDAS (using TCP/IP sockets); to read a table using
> filters. I was able to read the complete tables. But that is not always the
> business scenario. For my project, I have to use TTable (and not TQuery) on
> the Remote Data Module on the server side. But, I have to only get filtered
> records, based on some condition. I do not know how to pass a filter from
> the client to the server dynamically and make it work. I spent a lot of
> time. It is very unfortunate that even Inprise assumes that we always read
> the whole table; because they have not provided a single example anywhere in
> the manual, or online help or in their MIDAS white papers, to describe how
> to use filters with MIDAS related components.
>
> I would appreciate if Inprise can answer this question; otherwise, anyone
> please help me. Several white papers have come; several presentations have
> come in the conference; but nobody discusses anything other than reading the
> whole table; this is really very strange. Is MIDAS capable of using filters
> and only bring a subset of rows ? THEARY IS NOT SUFFICIENT. EXAMPLES ARE
> REQUIRED. DOCUMENTATION ON MIDAS IS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY ....
> POOOOOR.
>
> Can anyone in Inprise talk about MIDAS's capabilities in more details than
> what just they talk on how to make a simple client/server connection. When I
> bought BCB 5 Enterprise, I had lots of hopes on MIDAS. But, the
> documentation is literally ZERO. Is it for that we pay big bucks for this
> software ??????? Can anyone write atleast a book on MIDAS ??? Or does
> Inprise expect the users to pay more and get trained ?
>
> I need an answer from INPRISE. The answer is going to make my business
> decision. I posted a question earlier on the newsgroup on Oracle 8.1.6
> connectivity. Inprise did not answer that question, I guess rather the
> question had been deleted from the database. The question is only about 12
> days old. Other questions posted on the newsgroup are still there. Why my
> question had to be deleted. I spent so much money on Borland's products
> compared to Microsoft's; but the documentary help is really extremely bad
> from Borland.
>
> Thanks
> Satya S Kolachina