Item property 'Initial Value'

In our application, we use the Item Property 'Initial Value' to populate default values in new records.
For our Forms 4.5 release of the application, the Item Property 'Default Value' populated this value at form startup (the record status is 'new'). As I recall (hazily) during pre-conversion testing, Forms 6.0 Item Property 'Initial Value' performed the same functionality at form startup. No code changes have been made during the conversion for this event.
Forms 6i (6.0.10.3) appears to only populate initial values that are hard coded or system defaults. Initial values retrieved from a block/global item is not set at form startup (block values are set in the WNFI trigger and globals are set before entering the form).
The only solution we found is to add a CLEAR_RECORD to the WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE trigger. After this built-in is executed, the initial values from block/global locations are populated.
Has anyone noticed this problem. I checked the bug database and did not find any mention of this problem.
You might want to keep this in mind at form startup in your application when converting to Forms 6i.

Hi John
Thanks for your tip; I noticed that behaviour and tried to work around it with pre-insert triggers (which also don't work properly for me).
I'm on Forms version 6.0.8.8.0, on linux.
Thanks again
Paulo
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by John Mierzurak ([email protected]):
In our application, we use the Item Property 'Initial Value' to populate default values in new records.
For our Forms 4.5 release of the application, the Item Property 'Default Value' populated this value at form startup (the record status is 'new'). As I recall (hazily) during pre-conversion testing, Forms 6.0 Item Property 'Initial Value' performed the same functionality at form startup. No code changes have been made during the conversion for this event.
Forms 6i (6.0.10.3) appears to only populate initial values that are hard coded or system defaults. Initial values retrieved from a block/global item is not set at form startup (block values are set in the WNFI trigger and globals are set before entering the form).
The only solution we found is to add a CLEAR_RECORD to the WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE trigger. After this built-in is executed, the initial values from block/global locations are populated.
Has anyone noticed this problem. I checked the bug database and did not find any mention of this problem.
You might want to keep this in mind at form startup in your application when converting to Forms 6i.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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