Pathmaker Programming Guide

Inserting Rows

How to Operate a DB Requester Application

B–8 067868 Tandem Computers Incorporated

Figure B-1. Inserting a Record in a Nested Box

STEP 1: Enter values in the fields of the parent box.

BRANCHNAME San Francisco__

MANAGER 23___

* PRIMKEY

REGNUM _1

BRANCHNUM _2

EMPNUM ______ EMPNAME ____________________ JOB ___________

AGE __ SALARY _______.00 VACATION ____

STEP 2: Press F10 to insert the record in the parent box.

STEP 3: Enter values in the fields of the nested box.

STEP 4: Press F10 to insert the record in the nested box.

BRANCHNAME San Francisco__

MANAGER 23___

* PRIMKEY

REGNUM _1

BRANCHNUM _2

EMPNUM 0123__ EMPNAME Joe Jones___________ JOB Salesrep___

AGE 39 SALARY ___3000.00 VACATION 1___

Note Values must not be entered in a nested box until a read or insert operation is requested for its parent box.

If values are entered in the nested box before an operation for its parent box is requested, the application

will remove the values from the nested box when it performs the operation on the parent box. If an

application automatically reads a row for the nested box whenever an operation for the parent box is

requested (that is, an AUTOFILL), the application will replace the values in the nested box with values

read from the database.