This is beautiful... it will work. It was what I was thinking I just didn't 
know how..

Ted

--- On Sat, 4/24/10, Steve Peery <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Steve Peery <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: ideas/method to label lines
> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 4:36 PM
> If you want to store a unique index
> letter for each record then just store the letter in the
> database. 
> 
> If the display always starts on A and is based on the
> current order, you can just bind the repetition index to a
> variable:
> 
> ItemRep : WORepetition {
>     list = items;
>     item = repItem;
>     index = itemIndex;
> }
> 
> and create a string from the index in the java file:
> 
> public String indexLetter () {
>     char c = (char)(65 + itemIndex);
>     return String.valueOf(c);
> }
> 
> and bind that into your repetition in the component:
> 
> ItemIndex : WOString {
>      value = indexLetter;
> }
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Apr 24, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> 
> > I need to add rows to an object listed in a table. My
> client wants the rows labeled A, B, C, etc...  So the
> question is.. how to do this. I thought about just numbering
> the rows in the database (1, 2, 3) then display them by
> using the ASCII number and add the row number.. (ie, I save
> in the database 1,2,3 and add 64 then display the resultant
> ascii character (65 = A, 66 = B, etc)...
> > 
> > Is there an easier way? I get convoluted at times.
> > 
> > Ted
> > 
> > 
> > 
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