Recent content by bmwisme

Can someone tell me if Progress has what I know as MACRO substitution. Here is the explanation per Visual FoxPro: You can replace names with variables by using macro substitution. To use macro substitution, place an ampersand (&) before the variable to tell Visual FoxPro to use the value of...

Sort on Alpha... The item number will be alpha/numeric. I have sorted on character fields in FoxPro but Progress seems to lack the necessary functions to handle the mixture of letters and numbers. Bill

Without adding an additional field to the schema of our Syteline (5.0.20) ERP application (Progress 9.1a), I would like to sort a table (item master) by the character field (item). Management would like to pad the field with preceeding zeros to get the sort to their liking - I am fighting tooth...

SyteLine 5.00.02 newbie. I would like to grab the screen value of the field I am on with a leave trigger. strTmp = tt-item.drawing-nbr:screen-value. Is this syntax incorrect? I get a "Unknown table tt-item". "Field Schema Information" from within Syteline tells me that this is the...

I am new to Syteline/Progress and have been testing screen triggers. I did get a simple trigger to execute in Syteline v4 but the same will not execute in v5. Example: Code attached to LEAVE trigger.. /* ************************************ */ {lib/trig-def.i &object=item/v-itmhdr}...