I have a BrowseDialog on a maintenance form and that all works well. When I return from the BD I am able to edit the chosen record and save the results. All is good, but, how do I get all the records back in the BO after I save the changes so I can continue to edit? I'm sure it is simple but I just don't seem to be able to get it to work. TIA.

Terry, as Edhy told you, they will all be still there. There is no need to go back and do another search. First time you came back from the BD, your BO was populated with all the results, even if you edit the current row you see on your form, after you save you can navigate to any of the others that came from your search, they are there already. Try the Nvaigation buttons on the Toolstrip and you will see it.

Yes I know that. Let's say I have 100 records in the BO at the beginning. I use the BD and I get 3 records back. That is what I want and I edit 1, 2 or 3 of them and save my edits. Now I want to go back to the 100 records so I can get another set to edit. Does that make sense?

Sorry for the confusion.

Oh, I kind of got it now what you meant. I think you have the feeling that you need your BO populated with all records first, and then when you go to the BrowseDialog and enter a Search Criteria, the BD will then perform the search on your populated BO, is that the case? If it is, then no, this is not what it happens.

The BrowseDialog will always go to the server and do the search on the underlying table. It doesn't care about what you have in your BO at the time it does its search, and by the time you give it the OK after found your records, it will populate your original BO with all records found only.

So, on your example, after you edited and saved the 3 records you had found first, justo go back to the BrowseDialog and enter your new search criteria. You will be sent back to the BO with the new records found and then you can again do whatever with them and save them.

Sounds like what you were looking for?

OK I understand and it makes sense. I thought it was working on the BO and not going to the server. That is Cool, that will work for me. My understanding was what was causing me the problem. Thanks to both of you......

You are most welcome, Terry.

Hi Terry,



Glad you got it working. Yes StrataFrame is very powerful and flexible, the more you get to know it, the more you will figure out what you can do with it, not only the BO, but almost every part of the framework surprise me when I need to do something complicate or advance and then figure out the way it is handle by the framework and most of the time, it is pretty simple.

Edhy Rijo