BO export to dBase DBF

[venim]

Hello,

at my office we get an error when we try to export a report to DBASE. It says that there is an problem with column names being the same (it involves a column 'period name' and 'period number' now since dbase handles column names with a max of 8 characters, both columns are named 'period_n'). Is there any way to alter column names in the report, export or something?

Thanks for your time,
Venim

 

[skrandel]

Nope. There is no way to do this. The issue is that when you export, you are exporting a data provider which has it's names sourced from the universe.

If your object names are longer that 8, you have a problem. You're going to have to fix it in the universe.

Let's ask the real question: Does any one actually use DBASE any more?

Steve Krandel
Intuit