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  • May 18, 2015 at 6:31 pm #54681
    Mike Nirva
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      When I create a table using the gui, my table looks like this:

      prologue

         who: m2sd3s

         date: May 18, 2015 2:19:01 PM EDT

         outname: output

         inname: input

         bidir: 0

         type: tbl

         version: 4.0

      end_prologue

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      dflt_passthrough=0

      dflt=

      dflt_encoded=false

      #

      1

      a

      encoded=0,0

      #

      2

      b

      encoded=0,0

      #

      3

      c

      encoded=0,0

      After each entry there is the line “encoded=0,0”.  Can somebody tell me what that’s for?  When I import an excel spreadsheet I wasn’t adding this line.  If I bring it up in the gui and resave it, the line will be added.  Just curious.

      Thanks,

      Mike

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      • May 19, 2015 at 3:00 am #82554
        Rob Abbott
        Keymaster

          The encoding parameter is used to determine whether the field should be “masked” or not.   A new feature added to table lookup a few releases ago.

          Rob Abbott
          Cloverleaf Emeritus

        • May 19, 2015 at 1:57 pm #82555
          Bob Richardson
          Participant

            Greetings,

            Since about 5.8.5 and up the encoding feature was added to allow table entries to be encrypted.  Some customer back in the past (gleaned from conversations with then Lawson R & D support) wanted to encrypt provider ids and names.  Well, the encryption is merely Base64 anyway which my mother could hack in her sleep.

            To me a useless feature more annoying than practically functional.

            Messed up our home grown perl scripts to convert tables to csv files.

            Since patched up our perl code.

            Sometimes I think that R & D need to do reality checks with a larger client base before implementing “features” to satisfy a single client.

            Think of the impact to the larger community here.

            Enjoy.

          • May 21, 2015 at 2:12 pm #82556
            Terry Kellum
            Participant

              Agreed!  They could have even put in a checkbox to enable.

              The problem with this one is that a poor solution is much worse than no solution at all.

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