Serverformulafill: Got it!

[William Conable]

The grabdata( function didn't help, I'm afraid. But changing the name  
of the field did. It wasn't very hard, thanks to the View Wizard and  
the Search Menu. There was one more little glitch that might help  
tracking down the problem. I changed the name but it was still within  
chevrons and again I got the "Can't use a variable" message. As soon  
as I removed the (now unnecessary) chevrons everything was perfect.  
So indeed it was the chevrons that signaled a variable to the  
ServerFormulaFill statement.

Thanks for a lot of help on this, Jim!

Bill Conable

On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:00 PM, James Rea wrote:

>> If I rename the field to Date Active, then this procedure gets me the
>> "cannot include variables" error":
>
> It's not clear to me why this wouldn't work. I've studied the source
> code and it certainly appears that it should work. There is special
> handling for the « » characters, but it seems correct.
>
> Anyway, one thing you might try before renaming the fields is using  
> the
> grabdata( function.
>
> execute
>   {ServerFormulaFill grabdata("","Date Active")=}+str(date(MyDate))+
>         {,str(seq())}
>
> I'm not sure if that will work, but I think it is worth a try.
>
> Jim Rea
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