On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
I didn't say it didn't work. I said it was not reliable.
In some situations it may work all the time. You just can't bank on
it.
j.
In my experience, any script steps that require a particular layout
are prone to errors unless you explicitly go to the appropriate
layout immediately prior. If users have access to the layout menu,
you are almost certain to get failures at some point in time. Even if
they don't, there are cases where you might not be on the expected
layout for some reason.
Since copy and paste both require the fields to be on the current
layout, do you have such explicit go to layout steps in this case?
Is the database multiuser? Another mode of failure would be a locked
record -- locked by another user. If you have error capture set on
but do not handle this error, it might appear as if the step is not
working. This is another possibility.
All in all, there are quite a lot of reasons copy and paste might
fail in scripts. A number of them might appear to be 'random'.
Steve
