locally numbered fields

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Mon Apr 12 12:41:50 EDT 2004


On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Springer, Paul wrote:

> He talks about using locally numbered fields to easily loop through the
> fields on a card. He explicitly talks about not using the field's name 
> or
> ID. I don't understand how this mapping occurs; how do you assign 
> local,
> temporary IDs to fields so that you can then refer to them as "field x"
> (where x is one of these local IDs) within the script?

This is the layer within that type of control.  You don't need to 
assign it.

(Though they may not apply to the example in looping over fields, there 
is nothing wrong with using names and IDs.)

Dar Scott



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