ALIAS

I am New to Windev, coming from TopSpeed Clarion, I had used the Alias function in clarion to access a data file multiple times from the same form, I have tried to research a command or function in WinDev to allow me to do the same thing, but just not finding it, it could be Alias has a different function in WinDev , and I am looking in the wrong place.

My situation is in a single form (additional work agreement), I have Document Creator, Project Manager, and Bookkeeping Approving Manager all of these fields point to the employee file thru Aliases , and get 3 different employee IDs and Names I don’t see how to accomplish this in WinDev, any help, point me to the correct command, or help file would be appreciated.

TIA
Mark

Hi Mark,

Look for the hAlias function in the Windev Help.

hAlias help


Aad

Hello Mark

The file system in Windev is called Hyperfile and all commands that work on files start with "H" so HAlias() is the command to setup an alias

BUJCAlias is Data Source
HAlias("JCTrans","BUJCAlias")
HChangeName("BUJCAlias","JCTrans")
HChangeConnection(BUJCAlias,HyperFileCS)

When you use an index with an alias, the index name must be in quotes
HreadSeekFirst("BUJCAlias","JCCleunik",SrchPKey)

Regards
Al

Greeting
Personally, I do almost all manipulations on databases using sql queries and it proved to be very effective

Hi Infoss,

hAlias does to..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2022 05:08PM by AadG.

Hi All,

Thanks for the help, I can move forward again!

Mark