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DirkRuana's avatar
DirkRuana
Qrew Captain
5 years ago

Form Field Display

Hello Seattle Group:

I am having some confusing formatting issues.   Instead of displaying the content of a name or identifier field, my form shows the record ID.

When I look at the format of my Look-up Table it seems correct.  The first field is the name I want displayed.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?  Any assist would be greatly appreciated.

Dirk



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Dirk Ruana
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4 Replies

  • DonLarson's avatar
    DonLarson
    Qrew Commander
    Dirk,

    Any chance that you have the Related Location on the form and set Use Alternate Label Text so that it appears to be the Building Location instead of the Look Up Field.

    Here is a screen shot of that situation


    In my case above it will say Parent Name to the user but will show the record ID like in your case.

    If that is the issue, you fix it by using a  Proxy field that shows the information form the related table as opposed to the record ID,  Here is a screen shot from a Parent Child Relationship



    On the form I use the field  Parent-Name which allows the user to select any Parent record instead of using the Related Parent and the unfriendly Record ID#.


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    • MarkShnier__You's avatar
      MarkShnier__You
      Qrew Champion
      The other possibility is that when you look at the relationship, you may have an incorrect proxy field specified for the field typically called [Related Parent]

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      • EvanMartinez's avatar
        EvanMartinez
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