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WesGray Display Employee Name, not ID
I am trying to do something which seems very simple, yet I can't figure it out.
I have one custom table, Employee, with a key of Employee ID (autonumber). The Employee table has a field Supervisor which is a lookup field back to Employee. So one Employee can have a link to another Employee who is their supervisor. Now, when I am looking at an Employee record I don't want to see that their Supervisor is 00000001, I want to see the Employee.Name field of their supervisor. I tried using a formula field with a merge field in it, but can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas? There *has* to be a way to do this. Thanks!
I have one custom table, Employee, with a key of Employee ID (autonumber). The Employee table has a field Supervisor which is a lookup field back to Employee. So one Employee can have a link to another Employee who is their supervisor. Now, when I am looking at an Employee record I don't want to see that their Supervisor is 00000001, I want to see the Employee.Name field of their supervisor. I tried using a formula field with a merge field in it, but can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas? There *has* to be a way to do this. Thanks!
I created the custom object as you described, and here's how it appears on my system:
I think that the reason it worked for me, and not you, is how you defined your "Name" field on the object. Here's the definition of my Custom Object:
You'll notice that my "Name" field is the Employee Name, while I added a different field for Employee ID.
I suspect that on your system, the "Name" field is your Employee ID, which makes it appear as default.
You could write an S-control to retrieve the Employee object and display a specific field, but if at all possible I'd recommend just changing your Employee object to be like mine.
Thanks for the question!
John Rotenstein
Sydney, Australia