I have a case related to the messages that DFW displays. If i have a form with Sequence ID, and it is a unique filed. In DFD if you don't make changes to the form and by mistake press the F2 button, you will be warned that no changes happened and ask you if you want to save a new record anyway. This doesn't happen in DFW, if a user used the F2 button it will 'save as' new records as much as you press it, with new numbers in the seq.ID. Is there away to make 8.2/8.5 acting like DFD? what do you advice in this case?

Hi Fatma.

DFW is not DFD, and the DFD “feature” is more annoying in general than the fact that “Save as New” which is the name for F2 in DFW is.

It is no secret that the biggest problem for DFW was that it was NOT DFD, as the traditional users would only look at what they “lost” rather than everything they gained.

You have to remember that in DFD you could use F8 if the record didn’t already exist either.

DFD
F2 save first time and Question for save as new.
F8 for Modify.

DFW

F2 For save as new and save first time.
F8 for Modify and Save first time.

To be honest, the best way of solving this is to get the users to “de-learn” as the only problem is that they are too used to an outdated system. It will be better for them in the future if they forget DFD rather than trying to re-create it.

If you insist on doing this, you can simply change F2 to F8 in the Custom Menu.

As RecordSave() aka F8 basically do everything you want, you don’t need to have F2. IF they want to copy a record, you can put a button on the form “Save as New/Copy” and put

RecordSaveNew() on it

.

If you change the Action on this Menu Accelerator to Record Save it will not save copies of the record.