<html><head></head><body>Number 3 is the most likely possibility, though, they should understand from context that this will only happen on new records. I think the other two unlikely, but will double check. I just wanted to confirm that I remembered the idiom correctly. And I believe you've said that I did.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 19, 2015 4:41:04 PM EDT, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 3/19/2015 4:18 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> "DDW".<br /></blockquote><br /> To wit:<br /><br /> :@cd eq "":msgbox "Student ID^A"<41:<br /><br /> That should pop a message box after I hit SAVE on a new record, if I understand<br /> you properly.<br /><br /> I am told that it did not.<br /></blockquote><br />Try a simple test. Create a 1-line prc:<br /><br /> If: @CD eq ""<br /> Then: mesgbox "This is a new record."<br /><br />Try it.<br /><br />When you see that that works, then you'll need to examine the user's <br />processing to see why it's not working there.<br /><br />Is it in "normal" input processing? (As opposed to, say, automatic or in <br />@entsel, for example.)<br /><br />Do they have a WRITE in
processing which is executed prior to the @CD test?<br /><br />Are they actually creating a new record, rather than updating an existing one?<br /><br />Something else entirely?<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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