perform find in portal

[onno]

in my main file there is a portal showing corresponding invoices in a related file.

I would like to find the records that do not have (a) related invoice(s). I understand that it is impossible to perform a "zero records" find (result no records found).

What should I do.

Thank you for your help.

[djgogi]

Hi,

try this one:

1. define in your main file an "constZero" field with option auto enter data 0 (you'll need to perform replace for already existing records).

2. allways in main define an calc field result number say hasInvoice as

hasInvoice=Count(relName::invoiceID)

where relName is your relationship used for displaying invoices in portal.

3. finally define an relationship in main NoInvoices::hasInvoice-->constZero

4. create an script

set error capture on

GTRR [noInvoices, show only related]

//handle no related records

HTH

Dj

[djgogi]

ooops, I was writting without thinking. So of course last step won't work.

Instead you'll have to perform find ( in main) on hasInvoice=0 (BTW it's an unindexed field so the search might yield some time if large number of records is involved).

Than also you don't need neither step 1 and step 3.

sorry

Dj

[onno]

Yep, it works. I have tried to do what you explained in your first reply but I soon found out that just creating the calc field hasInvoice=count(relName::invoiceID) would do the trick.

Thanks a lot!