Agreed,
On the side note. There are programs out there, one I keep handy is called ‘Diary Editor’….allows editing of diaries….it’s unsupported, but uses supported API calls….works good J From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Logic in active links vs. filters ** Hmm...lets see. *Database* (old) value of a diary field, nothing/nobody can change. *Transaction* value (valued added this time) of a diary field: With an Active Link, you CAN change anything, such as wipe it out, add to the beginning of it. With a filter you can only add to the end. Agree? Side note: if you really have to change old contents of a diary field on a record...what do you do? Say somebody put a social security number (if you're not in the US, that's sort of a not so secret number assigned to everybody that everybody tries to keep secret anyway) in the work log diary field and some higher up is mad? This actually happened one time. Messing with database is...messy. The easiest solution (that somebody else came up with), was to export the worklog (and entry id) in arx format. Edit the exported file in a text editor, import it back. Done. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM, LJ LongWing <lj.longw...@gmail.com> wrote: ** Cool….I just wanted to make sure you weren’t saying/thinking that you could replace the entire contents of the diary via AL J From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:26 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Logic in active links vs. filters ** LJ, you're not off base. That's exactly what I meant. On filters, if you do a set field on a diary field such as: Diary Field = "new string" + Diary Field Diary Field = "new string" The result is as if you had done Diary Field = Diary Field + "new string" _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
