>>I have a program that needs to report on information from a table, but the system will not be informed of the layout of the table until runtime. I have tried everything I know to set it up so that the reporting routine works regardles of the name of the fiels using macro susbstitution. So far nothing has worked. Any hints?
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>>Thanks in advance...
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>>John Dennis
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>I guess you may use UDFs. For example, use as field expression "GetMyField1":
>FUNCTION GetMyField1
>DO CASE
>CASE Alias()="TABLE1"
> Return table1.field5
>CASE Alias()="TABLE2"
> Return table2.field8
>*** etc.
>ENDCASE
>
>Instead of Alias(), you may check something else, e.g. FCOUNT(), whatever is more appropriate for your design, some pre-set variable in ultimate case.


Thanks, I will take a look at the udf idea.

jd