What about editing the view field to use an evl(fieldname,null) when returning that field?
Regards Michael Hawksworth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince Teachout Sent: 15 May 2007 22:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! View is converting empty date to 1899! Ted Roche wrote: > What are you thinking about for a work-around? Replacing the empty dates with NULLS, which works fine: OPEN DATABASE tadb SET DATABASE TO TADB =ADBOBJECTS(aFiles, "TABLE") FOR ni = 1 TO ALEN(afiles) cFile = afiles[ni] IF FILE(cfile+".dbf") USE (cfile) SHARED FOR nJ = 1 TO FCOUNT() IF TYPE(FIELD(nj)) = 'D' cField = FIELD(nj) cCommand = 'replace ALL ' + cField + ' WITH .NULL. FOR EMPTY(' + cfield + ')' TRY &cCommand CATCH endtry ELSE LOOP endif ENDFOR USE IN (cfile) ENDIF ENDFOR > There's a reason why you are using a remote view to access local Fox > data, but I can't ask. It's too bad, because the answer to that > question could open up different avenues of discussion Okokokok - it's because it's a legacy system already deployed in about 40 different locations. Has never been a problem until now because people always started with empty data sets, and as they added them, entered dates, OR left them empty, which saved a NULL. This is the first time we're converting existing data, and I converted empty to empty. > If you think you're emulating > client-server for other database support, well, you've got an > educational experience coming. If you have some clever idea about > remoting DBF tables via ODBC, that doesn't work the way you suspect it > does. If you're doing something completely different, well, that might > be interesting. Sort of a bastardization of 1 and 2: That was their solution for supporting multiple backends. Make everything remote views, have a switch and DEFINES in an include file for the remarkably few times the SELECT syntax is different, and VOILA! The system is so simple, that it actually works remarkably well. I inherited the system from the person inheriting the system from the programmer who created it. -- Vince Teachout Caracal Software www.caracal.net 518-733-9411 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
