Renjini, The key field must meet a variety of very specific conditions. What you are seeing is that there are 6 fields on the table that meet the specific criteria for being a key. The field you want to select does not meet those criteria.
Now, the criteria have changed over time. You did not mention the version of the AR System server you are using so I cannot tell whether you will find that more fields qualify for being the key if you went to a later version of the AR System. If you are on version 7.5, that means there are only 6 candidate fields for the key. If you are on an earlier version.... Originally, the key field had to be a character field of 15 characters or less. The next release, we allowed it to be an integer field as well A release or two later, we allowed longer than 15 character character fields to be used. So, you need to look at the rules in the specific release you are running to see what level you are at with respect to the restrictions. Most commonly, users want to select a character field of over 15 characters and are running a version of the AR System that is before we expanded the options for the key to allow this. Upgrading to a later version of the AR System will eliminate the issue. I hope this helps, Doug Mueller ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Renjini Johney Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:47 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Unable to select desired "key field" for View form ** Hi All, I am trying to create a view form on a data base table , when i put the table name in "Database table" field and click load, it automatically shows 6 fields in the "key field" (i have 80 fields in the table) I want to choose an another field (not fromthe 6) as key field, but its not allowing me to do so :(, Can someone help with this issue??? -- Regards, Renjini _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
