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Paul,
Not exactly sure what you are trying to do here. You should always use field names as apposed to field numbers. Depending on what changes you make to a field on a form, the field number can change, while field names remain the same.
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Janet Hiller ‗^..^‗
On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:34 AM, Paul Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Michael: thanks for that. It appears that changing to upper-case has got me over that particular error message. In reply to your other email I can load the form file and the form via ENTRY - I needed to do this in order to get the field names for the COBOL program.
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> So the program gets past recognizing the form file and form I'm now getting an error: "A field with the screen order supplied does not exist". I presume this refers to a section of 7 entries (7 fields on the form) thus:
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> multiply screen-order of field-entry (1) by -1
> giving field-id of spec-entry (1)
> move 5 to change-type of spec-entry (1)
> move "O" to change-spec of spec-entry (1) .... etc
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> The comments in the program state: "Screen order is indicated to field change intrinsic as a negative number".
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> As you have probably guessed I'm stumbling my way through VPLUS so I'm not really sure what these entries do.
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> So I've either got an incorrect screen order or may be the program doesn't recognize my field names - I used the VPLUS entry field names in the program.
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