RESTORE DATASESSION

Purpose

Save the status of the current data session

Syntax

RESTORE DATASESSION [ FROM <memvar>]

See Also

@...GET, CHANGE, EDIT, ON KEY, READ, REPLACE(), RESTORE RECORDVIEW, SAVE DATASESSION, SET CLIPPER, SET KEY, SET PCKEYS, SKIP

Description

The RESTORE DATASESSION command is used to restore the status of all open tables. The RESTORE DATASESSION command restores the following context pertaining to the saved session (See SAVE DATASESSION):

• Currently selected workarea
• Workarea number
• database name
• full path of table
• all index files
• Current record number
• Current index order
• Lock status
• eof() status
• bof() status
• found() status

The SAVE DATASESSION command may be used to save the above information. SAVE and RESTORE DATASESSION can be used with Recital Web session variables ( _SESSION[ ] ) to maintain context between different .rsp web page requests.

Example

procedure check_value
  save datasession
  close all
  // open up some new tables using a new datasession
  restore datasession
return

Products

Recital, Recital Web