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[Cliff Wiernik]

I have never used set relation since back in the clipper days when they had some problems with it. I instead do manual lookup or set scope as needed.

I was just wondering how many users use set relation or if it is just something that is really not used that much.

Cliff

[rdonnay]

I don't use it either. I'm not convinced that it is 100% reliable in Xbase++.

Also, you have to be careful to clear relations before closing files or a runtime error could occur.
I haven't worked with SET RELATION in a long time so it may be possible that those issues have already been resolved.

[skiman]

Hi,

I'm using set relations in my reporting system. It worksas it should. Never had any problems with it.

Reporting is only reading, there is never an update of the data when these relations are set.

[sdenjupol148]

Hey Cliff,

I experimented with SET RELATION in the Medallion software.
It worked just fine but I was more interested to see if using it was any faster than setting scopes and looking things up manually.
It wasn't but I left the code in anyway; it's the only place where I use it.

Bobby

[omni]

I use it only on a few browse screens for code descriptions and it has always worked. Do not use it on reports.

Fred
omni

[SlavkoDam]

Hi,

SET RELATION works great and I use it all the time since the old Clipper87 days. I use it in all read, update and delete operations without any problems. From the parent DBF you can set multiple (up to 7) child relations. Data from the child DBFs are referenced with the alias operator -> . When relation(s) are no more needed you have to close them and can set another one in the same function.

DBFs are RELATION database files and SET RELATION is the most important tool for database navigation and searching in all RELATION databases. SQL databases are also RELATION and they cannot work without relations. Using SET RELATION saves a lot of programming work you have to do for manual lookup or scoping. The most benefit is in creating browsers and other reports. Besides, if you don't use relations in a relation database software, why do you use that software at all.