"bill page" <bill-insert-at-digitalgarden.com> wrote in message
news:OwYSV7LrEHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I 'm try to write a large package. It has several sub packages. Mostly
> this works ok as I'm passing down global parameters. The latest one I
> have
> written needs to pass back an internal database id (from an insert) to be
> used several tasks later. I have debugging output that suggests that I am
> correctly setting the value of the global variable (i.e. i ask for it
> again
> in the sub package script and it has the new value). However, when I try
> to
> use the value, it has the value it had prior to the insert call returning
> the new id. I can copy the script from the sub package and paste it into
> an
> active-x script in the main package and it works as desired. The problem
> with having the script in the main package is that I would need to
> duplicate
> it 26 times, changing one passed in parameter, thus the desirability of
> making this a sub package. I went to the MS knowledge base and found an
> article suggesting that this should work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> bill
>
>