Use a field to choose between two other fields

rbuser

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

rbuser

Create a calculated field in the dataset.

Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

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

digitalmetaphors

Another option is to toggle the visible property of two labels.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

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