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Re: Setting a Filter in a grid

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From: Romain Strieff [TeamB]
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <74hdsp$8f74@forums.borland.com>, John Staub politely 
paraphrased...
> So the user set values in the combobox(s), and clicks on the appropriate
> pushbutton.  What I am struggling with is the filter statement (string?) for
> the grid.  I've tried 'select * from "afper.dbf","afcert.dbf"
> where ---&&this is where I get lost.  How do I correctly develop the filter
> string from here?  Is my starting Select even correct?  Needless to say,
> I've not gotten very far yet<g>.
> 
>   Am I even approaching this correctly??  I thought of a "filter by form"
> but was trying to set up something that is user oriented.  Some of the folks
> using this system need to be held by the hand, so I figured datalinking
> entryfields and having the user type in the filter value was probably not a
> good idea.
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It's the _best_ idea, since it's fully automatic and built-in with the 
databuttons. (unless you need special filtering, like >= etc)

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From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB])
Subject: Re: Setting a Filter in a grid
Date: 1998/12/08
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