Jim,
This feature has been implemented. Except a few syntax difference, it has all that you mentioned and more like default value of now() will be converted to mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss etc. and workd for "Add" and "Filter". Send to quality control to be tested. Watch for it in the coming releases.

Thanks for the suggestion,


Frank

On 9/29/98 8:31:52 PM, Jim Santarius wrote:
> Frank,

Well I`m not sure I follow what your saying until I see it in
> action. What I was thinking was more along the lines of a new property
> like dbEditDefaultFlds perhaps using pairs such as in dbNameMap where it
> might look like
> this:

dbEditDefaultFlds="field,default;field,default"

Since the edit
> form (in add mode) is using text inputs couldn`t you just set the value of
> the tag to the default as indicated? And, to make it even better yet if
> you were using dbEditDropFlds, set the selected value in the dropdown to
> the default. I don`t ask for alot do I :-)!

Actually I can almost get
> what I want by using dbEditDropFlds setting a user defined list with one
> value from my session variable. The only problem with that approach is
> that the list has no selected value so, though the list has only one item
> in it I still have to select it. Now if the list defaulted to selecting the
> first value if there were only one to select...

Thanks again,

Jim
On
> 9/29/98 11:58:34 AM, Frank wrote:
> Jim,
There are a couple of new
> features in the coming release that might
> help you to resolve the
> problem. One of them is the export of the button
> state before and after
> the click. That means when you click the "Add"
> button, a variable in
> the URL called aspDBClick=add will be available to
> you via
> request("aspDBClick") or request.form("aspDBClick") to intercept
> and
> process anything before you pass the control to aspDB. Here you can
>
> "change" the properties like dbSQL, DSN .. etc. Also, after the button is
>
> clicked and the screen is displayed, a new property called dbLastScreen
>
> will contain the name of the last screen displayed. Between the two,
> you
> should be able to have full control. If it doesn`t work out, get
> back with
> the problem and we`ll solve it !!


Frank



On
> 9/28/98 4:57:05 PM,
> Jim Santarius wrote:
> I am putting together an
> application where I
> isolate the recordset with a
> where clause in
> the dbSQL property (I have
> a where clause with a field
> called
> category set to a value). How can I
> get dbPro to set the default
>
> value for my category field to the current
> value when I enter Add mode?
>
> Since the user is working in that view of
> the data I don`t want to
> require
> them to enter it. What I need is the
> ability to set the
> default value
> during add mode to a session
> variable.

Jim