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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">While trying to get date-based themes to work, I've come across another problem (a bug maybe) with Filters. If I enter a condition for a theme such as Field < AnotherField this works as expected. If the same condition is put into a Filter on the same layer, no data is displayed. I'm assuming this means an error has occurred, but no error message is returned.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Studio Help suggests that the expression dialog box for the Filter and Theming is the same, and it makes sense that it would be. So I would expect a condition to work equally well in both.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Another oddity I've come across is when using the 'Get' button in the expression dialog box. This should return a list of unique values for the selected field. However, I get an error message titled 'Unable to complete request to site' and the message 'Parameter was not found: Fieldname' when accessing data (via a feature join) in a SQL Server table. The condition itself does work when used in a theme. However, if I use the 'Get' button with fields in a different SQL Server table, but in the same database, I do not get this error message. I can see no reason for this.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All these types of issue make it a slow and painful process trying to set up a working application.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sure would be nice if somebody (especially somebody from Autodesk) could shine some light on these things…</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Keith</FONT>
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