Doug & Tim:

I thought it was only me not understanding things again.

What I ended up doing was building my own ‘Report Editor’, where I presented 
the tables and field for the users.

Jody Bevan

Jody Bevan
Developer



Argus Productions Inc. <https://www.facebook.com/ArgusProductions/>




> On Mar 5, 2020, at 4:45 PM, Doug Hall via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> WOW. It actually does work to use a formula, but that SUCKS as far as user
> interfaces go. It gives you the interface you'd expect (for selecting
> related tables/all tables) in the formula editor. As long as field names
> resolve properly, it should work. But, YUCK!
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:53 PM Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2020, at 2:34 PM, Doug Hall wrote:
>> 
>>> A few weeks ago, we switched to 4D v17 (64-Bit) so that our users could
>> run
>>> Catalina. Today, a user showed me that you can't dig more than one table
>>> away from the current table, in the new 64-bit Quick Report Editor. Are
>> we
>>> missing something, or is there a way around this?
>> 
>> My users noticed it too. 4D needs to fix this in a future version.
>> 
>> You can try doing calculated column and manually entering in the related
>> field reference. It think that will work. But it’s a lot of work for the
>> user compared to just selected a field from the field list.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
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