Select Expert - field name alias? 2

[Jinny]

I have a user who says he would use my Crystal Reports more often if the tabs in Select Expert were more descriptive.
I know I can give an alias to a database, but cannot find info for fields.

Thanks,

Jinny

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jinny,

I suppose you could wrap each field in its own formula -- the formula could have a user-friendly name and would return the value of the corresponding field. It's a lot of work, though.

Another possibility might be to use the Crystal Dictionary. Again, you'd have to decide if it was worth the effot.

Mike


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[synapsevampire]

Perhaps they'd be better off if they didn't use the select expert, rather you could prefill defaults in parameters and let them filter through prompts.

Otherwise placing each field in a formula for the data types supported (crystal and database dependent), or SQL Expressions.

-k