Hello there

I was using a prior yet somewhat inferior approach to what I trying with llblgen for a few projects.

What I am missing out on though, is the ability to add quick calculated fields, for example:

I store a "source code" as 3 pieces of info, origin, source and trigger.

Origin="T1" Source="NVShow" Trigger="mailing"

Now in my view, for grid display purposes, I had the following:

'srcCode' = sub.Origin + '-' + sub.Source + '-' + trigger

This makes it nice and neat in the grid, but the edit gets the distinct pieces.

Another time I might use it is for zip code, which is stored in zip and zip ext seperately (not my data model). I like to show one column, zip, and have "06412-1212" rather than two columns.

Given that this grid is driven off my entity, is there a way to sneak in simple display only things like this? In other methods, I would have used the view approach, or added some code to my concrete classes to have readonly versions of these calculated fields.

Thanks,

DMA

Modify the entities (the entities generated by LLBLGen-Pro) and add custom properties. eg add a property Fullname, this has a get that concatinates 'Firstname' + ' ' + 'lastname'.

As Paul has suggested adding a custom property is the key here. Please refer to "Using the generated code -> Adding your own code to the generated classes", for better implementation

Thanks guys

Got it working last night, sorry I didn't post back. Yes, I did add a custom property. Works like a charm.

Thanks,

DMA