RandomAccessToDataTable is a project designed to demonstrate how to manually (randomly) read/write data from/to a data table of type dBASE. The Records data table is defined via the Data Table Manager. The Data acquisition method property of this data table is set to Not specified and the Archive files property on the Advanced page is set to None. The table contains the following fields: Number, Length, Color, and Material. The fields are linked to the same-named tags of different types defined through the Device Manager. The records in the data table are accessed manually from a script. You can view the records stored in the data table via the record viewer (the Report1 report).

The Init script defined via the Script Manager contains the procedure and function definitions and is executed only once before all other scripts in a thread. The RDb.CreateTableObject command is used to create an instance of an object that will be used to access the Records data table. For example, to add a new record to the data table (the AppendRecord procedure), the following methods of the object are called: OpenTable, Append, SetFieldValue, Post, and CloseTable. For more information on the TTable object used to access data tables, see the Scripts help file.