• *environment_definition_fields Function
• A5_ADD_FIELDS_TO_TABLE Function
• A5_CHANGEFIELDSIZE Function
• a5_control_insert_ole Function
• a5_csweb_getfields Function
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• A5_EDIT_FIELDRULES Function
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• A5_FIELD_RULES_GLOSSARY_EDIT Function
• a5_field_select Function
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• A5_FIELDSIZES Function
• a5_get_field_info Function
• a5_get_fieldinfo_delayed Function
• A5_GET_FIELDNAMES Function
• a5_get_fieldrule_editors Function
• a5_get_fields_in_table_set Function
• a5_get_reccount_delayed Function
• a5_getfields_ado Function
• a5_insert_text_into_field Function
• a5_merge_fields Function
• A5_RECALC_CALC_FIELDS Function
• a5_select_field_value Function
• a5_select_field_value2 Function
• a5_select_fieldname Function
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• a5_select_key_value Function
• a5_selectmultifields Function
• A5_SORT_EXPRESSION Function
• A_CURRENT_FIELD.NAME_GET Method
• ALLTEXT Function
• ALLTEXT_INITIAL Function
• COMPUTE_FIELD_STATISTICS Function
• FIELD Function
• INLIST Function
• ISBLANK Function
• PREVIOUS Function
• property_from_string_multi Function
• RECSIZE Function

ALLTEXT_INITIAL Function

Syntax

Arguments

Table_Alias

Table_Alias is the same as the table name if only one instance of the table is open. However, if more than one instance of a table is open, the alias is the table name with a numeric suffix.

Description

Returns a character string of all of the field values in the current record

Discussion

ALLTEXT_INITIAL() returns a character string of all of the field values in the current record in Table_Alias before any editing changes are made by the user. This function is useful if you want to search for a string in a record, without having to know in which field to search. It is also useful in an index expression when you want to build an index on all of the words in a record to perform Lightning Query Optimized searches in the whole record. This function is useful if you want to determine if a record was changed.

Example

alltext() <> alltext_initial() -> .T. if the user made any changes to the record.

See Also

• ALLTEXT()