>Hi All,
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>Is it possible to use a case statement in the expression of a field in a report form?
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>This works in a third party report writer (R&R):
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>case(section,"A","Mares Foaled","B","Mares Bred","C","Mares Treated","D","Absentees","")
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>If I enter this in the expression box in a field added to the vfp report designer and, then run the report, I get a "case.prg not found" error message.
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>I guess I could use iif's in multiple fields but it seems easier to use the case.
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>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Thanks,
>
>Jim Harvey
>jharvey@netrax.net

At least two possibilities, one use a nested iif(), the other write a udf() and call it in the report writer. In the textbox instead of putting the field name you just put the udf as in - getthisdata().