[FX.php List] Filed name of the dial

[Dale Bengston]

Bravo on this solution! Renaming fields in other peoples' projects is  
a recipe for nastiness. Laying in parallel stuff of your own is messy,  
but it will keep you out of trouble.

Dale

On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:29 AM, william.downs wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I did something similar yesterday actually - created an extra field  
> - then had a script set the badly named field
>
> Then the smart guy in IT asks "why did you not just rename the  
> fields" ?
>
> To which I replied "Cause you were on holiday"
>
> Idiot !
>
> Many thanks Stephe - and all who gave advice -
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> William
>
> On 28 Oct 2009, at 03:25, Stephe Pocock wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Would you consider using a new calculated field being Vol_Länge  
>> with an english field name (Vol_Lange) for this purpose.
>>
>> I have had to do something similar for a merge system.  Rather than  
>> re-code all my documents with corrected field names, I created  
>> calculated fields with the correct name pointing to the misnamed  
>> field.
>>
>> Stephe
>>
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