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Use a field to choose between two other fields

edited June 2001 in General
On detail band I have a DBText Field bounda to a field called Status.
Based on Status where would I put code that would allow me to choose either
of a two other fields.

what to use to show the value new selected field.


i.e.

if status = open then
show field1
else
show field2;

Thanks

Comments

  • edited June 2001
    Create a calculated field in the dataset.

    Ed Dressel
    Team DM
  • edited June 2001
    Ed-

    Are there disadvantages to using a TppLabel or TppVariable and providing the
    Caption or Text property either in the GetText event of the component or the
    BeforePrint event of the band?

    Thanks,

    Les

  • edited June 2001
    Another option is to toggle the visible property of two labels.


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


  • edited June 2001
    Les:

    Sorry about the late response.

    My strucutre is to save all of my reports to a DB table. I do not like to
    have any code/events in my applications that relates any particular report.
    To date, with around 100 reports, I do not have a single line of code for
    any report in my code (and I am not using RAP, yet). This keeps my report
    handeling mechinism to a minimum, and the code is very clean.

    So I would lean towards using calculated fields because of this. If your
    structure is different (different forms, different reports), then either
    method would work for you.

    Ed Dressel
    Team DM


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