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I'm running into a situation and need advice. Every 4 hours a probkup online kicks off and works perfect. The problem is, as the db/activity grow the bi takes about 3 minutes to backup and as you know it freezes activity. Is there a way to optimize the bi so that it is smaller or something else...

Happy Friday, In progress I want to check if a column contains a specific value. Example: '12345-A-001', '23146-P-006', '23-9-P'. I want to find any record with '-P' in it anywhere. I searched "contains" with no luck (previous experience operator). Thanks, Mike

Sorry for the general forum question but, it will help me find topics much better. How can I search for a phrase like 'file exists'? I only seem to get results for file and/or exists. I specifically want only 'file exists' Is This possible? Mike

Hello All, Is there a way to force all alpha characters to be capitalized in a standard fill-in as the user types? Mike

Hello All, I am looking for a way to search a char for a value anywhere within the Char. Below is my code to search from the beginning but how can I determine if "test" is anywhere in the char? Thanks in advance Mike DEF VAR cValue AS CHAR. cValue = "This is a test". IF cValue BEGINS...

Hello All, In a simple fill-in, how can I check as each keystroke is pressed, what key was presssed? I what to see (manipulate) when the field changes and watch for a special character to be entered. Thanks, Mike

Hello All, I have found code to launch an external program, ie Notepad.exe, but it appears I need the files listed below. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of these? windows.p windows.i winfunc.p winfunc.i Mike

Hello all, Is there a way in OpenEdge to get an environment variable to a progress variable? Example: Windows XP Pro. I want to get the system variable "COMPUTERNAME" to a character string I can manipulate. Thanks, Mike

I am on a mission to develop a crude Change Order System. When a table gets updated, what options are available to compare the Before and After to log which columns actually changed? It would also be nice to have both values, Before and After, for any column that changed. Any guidance would...

Greetings, I have a snippet of code I wish to better understand. "{&file}" &file="jobhdr" (ASSIGN {&file}.Date = TODAY). <-- Works Great Message {&file}. <-- Does Not Display "jobhdr" It is an input parameter but I don't understand what it's Datatype would be in the called procedure! I...

Is there a way to dynamically update an image in a standard image object? I have an OpenEdge Employee entry UI that we want to add an employee photo to. The path for the photo is in the metadata and the photos are on the file system. As each employee record is found, I need to update the image...

:) Good morning All, I am looking for a way to get a list/print of all Tables in a Progress DB (10.01b). The tricky part is also need to get the Column/Record Count for each table. Is this doable? Thanks, Mike

Hello, I need to get data entered by a user and uppercase the value "On Creation". code: TRIGGER PROCEDURE FOR CREATE OF Bank. Update Bank Set (Id) = (UCase(Id)). When this trigger fires, the data does NOT appear to be available for update. I assume it is still in a buffer...

Hello everyone. I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a current Visual Dataflex developer (ever heard of it?). I work for a manufacturing company that has purchased a new Progress based software solution. Therefore I was happy to find your forum and I look forward to picking a brain or two! Mike