Re: add a new column into the middle of an existing table

I've been using Crystal Reports since version 4 and my users do not find it too onerous to scroll down the list of available fields .. .( maybe I have shouldn't have beaten them so much to get them to cooperate ;-) )

For those who do, I create views for them, or I use the Dictionary tool to create subsets of columns for them to use instead of directly accessing the underlying table(s)

Steven Healey <sphealey_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>TurkBear wrote:
>
>> I dont know what GUI tools you are using, or how you design reports, but the order of the fields in a table is not
>> related to their arrangement in the report in any reporting tool I've used...
>
>
>Well, Crystal Reports comes to mind. I guess that isn't too widely used
>though ;-).
>
>Not the order that the fields appear in the report, but the order in
>which they appear in the "field chooser" (or whatever that tool calls
>it) is what is in question here. The tool then generates SQL which is
>of course order-independent.
>
>sPh

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