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FrankValcarcel
9-Feb-2014, 02:58 PM
The new cWebColumnLink doc says the Global Buffer will have the record in it. It seems to be but this strikes me as not in the direction DF has been going as the DD seems to be the preferred usage. The DD seems to have the correct record loaded too. Is this a typo and we should be using the DD or this is intended and we can plan on it?

Harm Wibier
10-Feb-2014, 07:59 AM
Well, lists / grids are kind of an exception there. They need to read in a set of data and they don’t want the DD’s to notify all the other DEO’s for each record it reads. So lists / grids use the Request_Read API’s from the DD’s to find records on the global buffer but without making that the new current record (as Request_Find would do). Because it still is the DD that performs the find it will still apply the DD its finds rules (constraints and such). So the DD will not always have the right record loaded during this process.

FrankValcarcel
10-Feb-2014, 08:18 AM
Dennis - doc opportunity.