Subject Re: Setting field values within a trigger
Author Dan Statham
Good Morning!

Well. There it is. I am doing this in the AFTER trigger. Guess
I'll have to move it to the BEFORE trigger.

Thanks...Dan'l




--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, Paul Vinkenoog <paul@v...> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> > I am trying to set some fields in a table based on variable
results
> > from within the tables insert trigger.
> >
> > I am looking up and or calculating some variables. Then, I am
using
> > "New.TotQtyBefore=:Total_Before" (and other fields the same way)
but
> > the field is comming up null. I have a "if (new.TotQtyBefore is
> > null) then new.TotQtyBefore =0" but it did not help.
>
> Are you sure you do this in a BEFORE trigger?
>
> If you do it in an AFTER trigger, no error is generated but any
> assignment to New.whatever is silently discarded.
>
> Greetings,
> Paul Vinkenoog