Re: User Defined Fields - HELP PLEASE!
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:21:04 -0600
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"Eric Bohlman" <ebohlman_at_omsdev.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9606857746A63ebohlmanomsdevcom_at_130.133.1.4...
> "Mark D Powell" <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com> wrote in
> news:1109085151.733741.130640_at_l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
>
>> I will take a contrary view. If the user wants user defined columns
>> then perhaps he or she should have them.
>
> But you have to distinguish between the (IMHO rather unlikely) case where
> the user *truly wants* them and fully understands the implications, and
> the (IMHO much more common) "XY problem" where the user has some
> (unexpressed) need to solve problem X and has jumped to the conclusion
> that a particular solution Y (in this case, user-defined columns) is the
> way to do it.
That is not at all what I think of when hearing the term "XY problem".
smiles. --dawn
(an XX)
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