All,

I have seen this question talked about a few times in the archives,
but I'm looking for more oppinion.

In Forms 9i I need to display the current record number and the total
count of records in a block. For the total, I just did the
"precompute-summary-count thing", which works fine. Now the user also
wants to always know what record they are on. I was originally
thinking along the lines of doing a when-record-chnged, or
when-new-item-instance trigger that would put the :system.cuurent_item
into a variable. Would this make sense? I have to other constraints
that make me want to look for a better way. First, I don't want to
query all records because there could be many. Second, this block has
dynamic sorting applied which I was thinking could get in the way.

Is there a "standard" way of doing this?

Thanks for the help,

steve

steve deno wrote:

In my forms the numbers show up in the lower left corner of the window
on the status bar? Did you disable the default?

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I did not disable the default, but would I not have to query all
records in the block to get the total number of records to show up?

Also, I wanted to be able to show multiple counts for each block
displayed

Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote