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Saving and retrieving objects in the database

When you display or work with any QMF object, QMF places a copy of that object in a temporary storage area. There is one temporary storage area for each type of object, so you can only have one of each object in temporary storage at a time. The name of the temporary storage area is the same as the object type. QMF places QUERY objects in the QUERY temporary storage area, REPORT objects in the REPORT temporary storage area, and so on.

Changes that you make to objects in temporary storage do not change the actual objects stored in the database unless you save those objects when you finish working with them.

For example, you will lose changes to an object in temporary storage if you end a QMF session without saving it. You will also lose changes if you display another object of the same type before saving the one you are currently working with.

You cannot save a REPORT object. Instead, you save the query and form that produce the report. To save a CHART, you save the data and the chart format. You will learn more about saving charts in Displaying your report as a chart.


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