Best Practice to Change a Caption Dynamically

Jason VanAtta

First - this is my first ever post, and I'm not entirely certain what I'm doing. If this is in the wrong place, or has already been addressed, just let me know. I searched to the best of my abilities and couldn't find anything.

On to the question. What is the best way to have a static caption on a form change in response to the value of another field on the same form? I tried using an event to change a variable with an IF statement, but that doesn't seem to be working. Pretty sure I don't have the IF statement written correctly, but just need advice. Or, if there's a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do, I'm open to that too.

Thanks for your time!

Carsten Steinhoefel

Jason,

You can bind your Static to a Data Source with Binding Type "Expression". Then you can use the Expression Editor to build your expression.

Here is something I built to test. My Primary IDO Collection has a SupplierType property and if the value is 'O' I want the static to say 'Caption' and otherwise 'Description' (not a real world example).

You get the exact syntax by using the various Edit options. First select the function, then you can select the parameters.