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ABC: Filtering reports
1998-08-07 -- Jim Dennison

Newsgroups: comp.lang.clarion

> I'm converting some apps to ABC and was wondering if anyone could
> explain the new method of validating or filtering report data at
> runtime.  Need to replace the old recordstatus = record:filtered.outof
> range, etc.. , EXIT  method.
>
> I've figured out the browse with the     BRW1.SetFilter(filtertext)
> method, but I haven't been able to get the report
> ThisReport.SetFilter(filtertext)    method to work, wrong embed point
> maybe?


At the "'Report" embed, WindowManager Method Executeable Code Section,
Open, Source,
put the following:

SELF.PROCESS.SetFilter(filtertext)

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