Recent content by sherzog1027

OK, I agree, I think we are mixing up some terms. I am not referring to the length function within Progress. If you do a dump of a table definition, it will include something like the following: ADD FIELD "ccf_cust" OF "ccr_form" AS character DESCRIPTION "Customer#" FORMAT "x(8)"...

I understand what the difference is and how to override it in a display statement, but in practice, length is apparently something I need to set. No matter how long my field actually was, it would only think the length was 8. I wanted PackingSlip.rpt returned, but every call to it would return...

Paul, Thanks for the response. What you said in there I already know about. When I created the .df file to update the local DB, it does the following: UPDATE FIELD "ccf_fmt" OF "ccr_form" FORMAT "x(20)" However, what I am referring to, it should look like this: UPDATE FIELD "ccf_fmt" OF...

Recently, I made some updates to a few fields by making their format larger, for example from x8 to x20. However, in other Progress DBs that we have on a local machine, it did take the update from the .df but when querying it, it still only returned 8 characters. I was able to find out that it...