[dabo-users] Modifying field as part of verifyRecord or beforeSave?

Hello all:

Dabo is a great software package. I'm in the process of moving Microsoft

access applications over to Dabo and using MySql as a backend. It's

working really well.

What are the ways to support the continuing development of Dabo if any?

My main question involves a table where I've added a DateMod and DateIns

columns. They are timestamps to track when a record was last modified and

when it was added. I've found these to be valuable in past systems. I've

put logic in the bizObj that handles this table to update the DateMod field

when a record is saved.

I'm wondering where the best place is to put statements that update other

information in a record based upon actions the user has taken, before the

record is saved.

I first put the code in the bixObj.beforeSave() method.

lstChanged = self.getChangedRows()

for row in lstChanged:

self.setFieldVal("DateMod", datetime.datetime.today(), rownumber)

return None

There were no errors thrown but the data was not saved either.

I then tried putting in validateRecord just

self.setFieldVal("DateMod", datetime.datetime.today())

return None

This works.

I saw on dabo-users that a comment about trying to do changes to the data

before a save. It said that remember to restore row pointer when returning

from beforeSave().

Is the reason that my code in the beforeSave() method didn't work was

because the rowpointer was moved in my code and not restored? I was

concerned that my program did not work as I'd wanted but there was no error

thrown meaning I really didn't understand what was happening in the saving

process.

Again, amazing package and really lives up to your saying "It just works".

Thanks,

Matt J.

Matt Jackson

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