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Re: Suprtool question
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:35:01 -0500
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At 02:32 PM 11/8/2005, Newton, Ernie wrote:
Ernie,

Yes you can:

http://www.robelle.com/tips/upd-from-table.html

Neil


>Greetings,
>
>Can you update an item in a dataset with a value in a table?
>
>I have a table called Widgets, that looks like this...
>
>WIDGET-NUMBER <KEY FIELD>
>WIDGET-COLOR
>
>I have a dataset called WIDGET-TYPES, that looks like this...
>
>WIDGET-NUMBER <KEY FIELD>
>WIDGET-TYPES
>
>I want to do this...
>
>GET WIDGET-TYPES
>IF $LOOKUP(WIDGETS,WIDGET-NUMBER)
>UPDATE
>EXT WIDGET-TYPES=WIDGET-COLOR
>
>I then get this error...
>
>Error:  Item "WIDGET-COLOR" not in the dataset WIDGET-TYPES
>
>Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ernie
>
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