How to see the field name of a text ?

[ReportingAnalyst]

Prior Draw Balance: rTotalPriorOutstanding

I would like to add another field name to a text. How can I do that? What can I do to see the source of the field within an existing text?

I am new to 8.5, so please be patient with me.

Thanks.

 

[satinsilhouette]

I don't believe this is possible in 8.5 or any other. I know you can put in the group or record select formulas, but not the actual field names. And I would wonder why you would want to do that anyways. Field names are generally confusing to end users? But in any event, I don' think this is possible, unless you hand typed all the text boxes.

When you drop a field into the detail section, a column header should appear, if not named with an alias, that would have the field name in it. Would that work?

Thanks so much!
satinsilhouette

 

[bigfoot]

Have you tried doing it in the SQL statment?

dbfield AS myfield

 

[Dimst]

-ReportingAnalyst

I think what you mean is that you put a text box (with text) within a section of the report, and within the text box you want to put a field name?

In that case then you select the fieldname within the text box and with the right mouse button you can go to format field.

Indeed when you want a table to have another name you can do this by Database-->Set Alias, select the table and rename it.

-D

 

[bigfoot]

Oh. Sorry. I didn't understand your question.

 

[ReportingAnalyst]

Thanks...Now I am able to do so.