SPLAT fields

Let us say you are displaying all invoices for a vendor. You need to track which lines the user is currently viewing, so on a page up/down, the next/previous set of invoices can be dsiplayed. Many screens have a visible Position_To fields for this. Some don't. They use hidden aka splat fields. How do you track the last invoice that was viewed ? You can save the unique key (company + vendor + invoice + suffix + cancel_seq) in the WS file. That, as you mentioned, will be clobbered by the next user that comes along. Instead define these in the .scr file. This will create a (company + vendor + invoice + suffix + cancel_seq) for each user so you know where to position the lookup. There is brief mention in the Doc for Developers: Application Development Workbench Standards Hidden and Detail Tab Form Fields Position 8 can be used for two purposes: hidden fields and detail tab form fields. An asterisk (*) in position 8 indicates that the field is a hidden field (also known as a splat field). Hidden fields are part of the form but are not defined in the $SCREEN section. A hidden field could be used to display a translation of a field value rather than the actual value. For more information, see type X under “Field Type.” Another use of a hidden field is to define the window fields associated with a command button field.

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