G'day Jim, At 05:25 15/03/02 -0800, you wrote: >You hit the nail on the head... The funny thing about this is >that this formula was defined years ago, and put into working >around version 3.x -- before my time... It has been working >and when I upgraded from 4.5 to 6.0 it kept the formula without >any complaints.. It's only when I went from 6.0 to 6.5 that it >mystically dropped the formual without any warnings... We tracked >down by the records in the database when this functionality >stopped working and the last recorded date that this worked was >a few days before our upgrade. The upgrade must have dumped the >formula without telling us... ouch... > >After shifting the column and accumulated data for this column >it works just dandy...
FASCINATING how it worked all this time. As far back as I can recall it was a restriction. Just goes to show how being a pedantic bleep and making religiously sure _everything_ conforms to the application specs can save heartache later on. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
