Hello Naomi,

You may want to re-read my grids article from the second issue of the UT Magazine. I think those techniques will work well in a situation like this. You can handle the changing data from the parent with a BINDEVENTS call to the child.

Bob

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'd like to get your ideas in addition to mine for the following problem.
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>I have a TQM screen which displays certain fields in a grid. The cursor for the grid is created in the class code, then I'm running select to get the data, then append data to my cursor. So far, so good.
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>Now we want to display a different field depending on user's preference. E.g. currently I display Status field, but we may want to display Insurance Carrier for some users instead of Status. The select statement will have to change (field name and join condition).
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>I'm thinking how should I attack this problem.
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>Here are my ideas:
>1) Add a new memo field to Profile table and put there
>field_name|Join expression
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>2) Add a new field cExtra_Field to my cursor (assuming I always want to have character extra field - what if I want a field of different type?) and use this name in my select.
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>This would work, but there is one catch. This form calls another form, which may change information in my TQM form. Currently the changes are reflected using subject-observer mechanism from MereMortals framework. I'm not sure how to generalize this part.
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>Anyway, what do you think? How would you approach this problem?
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>Thanks for your ideas in advance.