Deprecation of Summary Information on Table Reports

As discussed in the recent blog, Brian Cafferelli's Blog, the idea to remove the ability to create a pseudo summary report (using a table report as the baseline) could be a bit of a hassle for those of us who use these to be able to manipulate the field/column title, so the end user doesn't see 'Related...' as opposed to the terminology they're most familiar with.

With this deprecation being slated to happen sometime in spring 2021, does this mean that we'll be able to override column titles for summary reports? If not, then it's forcing us into creating another set of fields with the names we want displayed, then use those in place of the original field names solely for reporting purposes...This just seems like a bit of unnecessary busy work to get our business column names available, since we've been able to use table reports to override the column titles as we've seen fit.

Obviously, I do try to use summary reports whenever possible, but we've had several instances where it would have just been a larger process than it needed to be to get the business terms displayed on a summary report, so we've been using table reports and then summarizing the data so we could easily override the field names and save the report.

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Mark Lind
Business Analyst
CCI Systems, Inc.
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