See
Considerations for Creating Index Expressions in the help
TTOC(sdatetime,1)+phone+STR(id1)+STR(id2)
Why do you need such index in the first place?
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>I have the following index:
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ALLTRIM(TTOC(sdatetime)+ALLTRIM(phone)+ALLTRIM(STR(id1))+ALLTRIM(STR(id2)))
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>When I try to populate the table (alias), I get error message:"Error building key for index"
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