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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

553.0. "DDS and the FFPOSTADDR1 thru 7 unable to reference them" by GIDDAY::SETHI (Man from Downunder) Thu Apr 23 1992 07:52

    Hi,
    
    The customer has Version 2.3 installed and I have tested the script
    under Version 2.4 and can reproduce the problem.
    
    Nature of the problem
    
    .clear 1,23
    .text 1,1 "Running Test of Country Value"
    for first subscriber with .givenname1 = "XXX" do .text 5,1,"Got Name"
    for first subscriber with .ffpostaddr7 = "YYY" do .text 6,1,"Got Country"
    .wait 1,1
    .exit
    
    The script will display "Got Name" but not "Got Country"
    
    The customer wants to know are certain DDS Subscriber set's can not be
    referenced ?  Basically FFPOSTADDR1 thru 7 can not be used in the FOR
    loop.
    
    Thanks
    
    Sunil
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553.1Action attributes is the buzz-wordAIMTEC::WICKS_AMore Ship dates than actual ShipsThu Apr 23 1992 16:5515
    Sunil,
    
    This has been discussed before in the previous conference and there
    are some STARS articles on it.
    
    If the field is defined as an 'action attribute' in DDS then it can be
    searched on if it isn't then you can't.
    
    That's the behaviour that your customer is seeing. There's nothing
    ALL-IN-1 can do about since it's defined deep in the DDS Internals.
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
553.2A work around GIDDAY::SETHIMan from DownunderFri Apr 24 1992 02:1019
    G'day,
    
    The customer had the feeling that it was normal behaviour as described
    in .1.  However he has got around the problem as follows :-)
    
    He still uses the .FFPOSTADDR1 field but makes use of one of the
    .USERDEF fields to store the country in.  The .USERDEF fields can be
    referenced it only means that they are storing the country field twice
    but they are not to worried about that.
    
    The reason why they wanted to search on the country field is because
    they have 80,000 PROFS users and they want to import those into DDS
    directory.
    
    That's the end of the story so far !!!!
    
    Thanks
    
    Sunil