Reading the value of recid_ro_internal

[Dan Jinks]

If I want to see the value of the unique record ID within a detail block, how can that be achieved?
For detail blocks, I usually start with this statement:
csrc =@ f.getfieldandtable(sFieldname, “NOTESUBSET”)
Unfortunately, when I use sFieldname = “recid_ro_internal”, I get a null result.

[Dan Jinks]

I am trying a different approach to get the recid_ro_internal key. I have established an onmouse event function for the detailblock text controls and I can retrieve the detailblock row number. I thought I could then get to the associated record. The detailblock has functions getrowdata and setrowdata. The setrowdata returns a recordset but I do not see how to get from that information to the actual table record behind the clicked detailblock row.

Any suggestions?

[Dan Jinks]

Hmmm.

dataform1control.getrecord()
This looks promising.

[Dan Jinks]

Success!
{dataform1control.getrecord() was the key)

[Dan Jinks]

I also know why I could not access recid_ro_internal from the Volatable.
It seems that this function in db1util.sma:
function copy_db1rec_to_db1rec(type(db1record) fr, type(db1record) tr, integer iErrnum)

intentionally does not copy the recid_ro_internal field.

Good to know.

[Michael]

Hi Dan,

I’m sorry you had to track all that down on your own. I have now installed a notification extension so that I get emailed when a topic is posted.

As for vola1base, that is correct, it won’t copy the internal record id (it may well be creating one of its own actually – though I would have to check to be sure).

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