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A97 table field of Yes/No type without a default value property setting has a default value?

MLH
I have an A97 table with a Yes/No field named
TowJob and a form bound to that table. The
TowJob control on the form is bound to the same
field. It is an option group with Yes and No bttns
valued at -1 and 0 respectively.

Unless I specifically set the table field's defaultvalue
to Null, the form comes up with an automatic value
of 0 in the control? The control has NO default
value property setting. Why is that?

Why must one EXPLICITYLY set a table field's
defaultvalue property to Null instead of simply entering
nothing at all into the defaultvalue property setting field?
Nov 13 '05
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MLH
I have to agree that if someone asks me,
"Do you have any money in the bank?"
and I provide one of three answers:
Yes / No / Dunno
that is better than simply not answering
- akin to a null response.

I guess I've had to deal with nulls as a matter
of reality for so long - I've learned to live with
them. Maybe 3 cases are best:
Yes / No / Dunno. I'll certainly have to drop
the Yes/No data type on the field. Suppose
I could do so & make the default answer
Dunno. User would have to explicitly answer
Yes or No to relieve the ambiguity of a Dunno
value.
Nov 13 '05 #11

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