Serial Column

Posted in 2001

R WS — Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:07:52 -0800 (PST) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Dear All, Can a column with SERIAL data type be used in a form as an INPUT field ? Thanks in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Andrew Hamm — Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:10:21 +1100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

R WS wrote in message <93lnj1$l7d$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Can a column with SERIAL data type be used in a form >as an INPUT field ? No, on the theory that it's kinda silly, so 4GL enforces it as a NOENTRY field regardless of whether you think the same way. If you REALLY want to edit a serial field, you'll have to define sf = formonly.sf type integer, comments = "whatever"; and then possibly handle the transfer of the value to and from the screen and table or whatever variables you are using, depending on the programming style you are using.