>Another question for egroup types or other gurus:
>
>Doing ebase customization.
>
>Am puzzled by six (STORED) calc fields in Paymnts.102 , SCDef1Key . 
>. . SCDef6Key.  These contain the number 1 through 6 followed by the 
>appropriate part of the source code for the payment.  My question 
>is: why do these fields have to be stored?  They are used in six 
>relationships which allow the description text for the six source 
>code value pairs to pop up when you choose a SC.  But for this they 
>don't need to be stored.

Is that right? I though key fields had to be stored and indexed.

>There are also relationships from SCDEFS back to Paymnts, but I 
>can't see where these relationships are used...  Can anyone help? 
>We've got a large data set and are trying to pare down unneccessary 
>fields.
>
>Also - is there a reason why SCPos1...SCPos6 in Paymnts are lookups 
>instead of calced text functions of the Source Code field?  Seems 
>like lookups would be slower.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matthew Scholtz
>San Francisco, CA

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