>The solution has to be something just within Report Designer or an external app, meaning i could write a little app just for her lookup.
Nah, put a PRG in the path somewhere called getloantype.prg, make it look like this:
lparameters tnType
do case
case type('tntype') <> 'N'
return ""
case tnType = 1
return "Type1"
case tnType = 2
return "Type2"
...
endcase
Then, in the report field, just put:
getloantype(loan_type)
And you shoudl be good to go.