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kfr104
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Does anyone know if you can use a variable table to name your columns in WebFocus?

For example in SQL, I have a table that has three listings for 2005, 2006, and 2007. I want to label the columns in several reports to have each one of those variables as the title. This way I can just update the SQL table when I want to change titles.

Thanks


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Posts: 49 | Registered: June 06, 2008Report This Post
FrankDutch
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You can table the title database and put the results in amper variables with a -READ.




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Waz
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Ditto with Frank.

You just need to handle if its a variable number of titles, etc.


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Darin Lee
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If you're having to remember to update a database with column titles, hold them, then read them again using &vars, seems like it would just be easier to remember to change the TITLE= attribute in the MFD ( unless, as Waz mentions, they are really all the same field with a variable number of titles).


Regards,

Darin


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