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Article #490Re: Setting a Filter in a grid
From: Romain Strieff [TeamB]
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
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. ----- It's the _best_ idea, since it's fully automatic and built-in with the databuttons. (unless you need special filtering, like >= etc) -- Romain Strieff [TeamB] Please read this newsgroup guide below before posting on the private Inprise newsgroups. http://www.inprise.com/newsgroups/guide.html --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff5a1,aad4e58c13b985c4 X-Google-Attributes: gidff5a1,public From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB]) Subject: Re: Setting a Filter in a grid Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: <MPG.10d6e062aa795d7d989b1a@forums.inprise.com> X-Deja-AN: 419963027 References: <74hdsp$8f74@forums.borland.com> Organization: TeamB Newsgroups: borland.public.vdbase.data.sql