>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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