Thank you, Jason

I guess I was just looking for a quick fix for
my problem. I had envisioned just passing a
SQL string and a bookmark string to the second
routine and performing a first/next/eof process
to step through the selected records with an
independant TIB_Query.

Steve Fields

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@i...> wrote:
> > I was just under the impression that bookmarks were
> > SQL incidence specific and not table specific: bookmarks
> > for one selection of records were not valid for another
> > selection with all records, for example:
> > A selection where cities contained the first few letters
> > LAS gave 50 records, and from that selection
> > ten of them were selected by the user, using CTRL-Space.
> > This selection would then be passed as selected invoices
> > to be printed to a different form and set of routines.
>
> If your KeyLinks are set to compatible columns it uses the value of
the data
> and so they are assignment capable across queries. This is a very
powerful
> capability unique to IBO. Other datasets that do bookmarks tend to
use an
> arbitrary integer.
>
> You probably should use a parameterized query for individual record
> selection and just pass in the value of the parameter to print or
whatever.
>
> Jason Wharton