How can I simply reference another dictionary entry "C" (calculated) type
or "D" type

From within another "C" type dictionary entry?

Would like {DICTNAME} or something like that as other implementations may
have done somewhere.

OK - maybe fixed this --

Use ITYPE(@RECORD)

- as @ID is set.

But that means I have to read the separate dictionary record in

ITYPE(dictrec)

isn't there something simpler?

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:47:04 +0000, nagchampa wrote:

Is there a file variable set for the current dictionary - maybe a system
(@var) variable?

No can do:

00000068: Unable to load 'ITYPE' object code in dictionary expression

ITYPE sub can't be used within dictionary

ah -- as martin Philips said:

"You can use TRANS() in C-types in exactly the same way as in programs.
Alternatively, you can reference another data item defined in the same
dictionary using expressions such as
X = {name}
where name is the item to be referenced. The curly brackets are part
of the syntax."

http://www.rhinocerus.net/forum/data...nary-item.html

I was originally right -- absolutely fantastic.
What an amazing product openqm is -- why use anything else for your

What a great thread.... A question and five responses all from the
original poster.

He is absolutely right. The curly bracket syntax supported in C-type
dictionary items allows you to reference other items from the same
dictionary.


Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems.