In a message dated 4/18/2004 9:46:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Neither you, nor the user, need to worry about "format" statements, as this > information will come directly from your dictionary (though there is an API that you > can use if your database does "naughty" [with the benefit of historical > hindsight] things). Ross c'mon :) Do you really believe that a mature application uses one field in exactly ONE format? I have report sets that use a single field with five different formats. So being an old-school kind of person, I create five different DICT items. Nowadays people might use FORMAT statements on the command line but hey different strokes. The point being that a single cube cannot know every possible format that a single piece of data needs. Unless you want to sit down and reformat a report that is utilizing every possible character on a 132 char wide printout so it can use the 20L justification instead of the 13L "short description" field I had to create... then no. I Still have to create a special view. Will -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
