SAVE DATASESSION

Purpose

Save the status of the current data session

Syntax

SAVE DATASESSION [ TO <memvar>]

See Also

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

Description

The SAVE DATASESSION command is used to save the status of all open database tables. The SAVE DATASESSION command saves the following information pertaining to the current session for each open table:

• Currently selected cursor/workarea
• Cursor/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 RESTORE DATASESSION command may be used to restore 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