• *environment_definition_fields Function
• A5_ADD_FIELDS_TO_TABLE Function
• A5_CHANGEFIELDSIZE Function
• a5_control_insert_ole Function
• a5_csweb_getfields Function
• A5_DEL_FIELDS_FM_TABLE Function
• A5_EDIT_FIELDRULES Function
• a5_field_copy Function
• A5_field_getKeyColumns Function
• A5_FIELD_INFO Function
• A5_FIELD_RULES_CASE_EDIT Function
• A5_FIELD_RULES_GLOSSARY_EDIT Function
• a5_field_select Function
• a5_field_type_get Function
• A5_FIELDSIZES Function
• a5_get_field_info Function
• a5_get_fieldinfo_delayed Function
• A5_GET_FIELDNAMES Function
• a5_get_fieldrule_editors Function
• a5_get_fields_in_table_set Function
• a5_get_reccount_delayed Function
• a5_getfields_ado Function
• a5_insert_text_into_field Function
• a5_merge_fields Function
• A5_RECALC_CALC_FIELDS Function
• a5_select_field_value Function
• a5_select_field_value2 Function
• a5_select_fieldname Function
• a5_select_fields_multi Function
• a5_select_key_value Function
• a5_selectmultifields Function
• A5_SORT_EXPRESSION Function
• A_CURRENT_FIELD.NAME_GET Method
• ALLTEXT Function
• ALLTEXT_INITIAL Function
• COMPUTE_FIELD_STATISTICS Function
• FIELD Function
• INLIST Function
• ISBLANK Function
• PREVIOUS Function
• property_from_string_multi Function
• RECSIZE Function

FIELD Function

Syntax

Arguments

tablename

A non-null character string. Table_Name must be fully qualified if it is not the primary table for the associated form.

fieldno

For a table, Field number is 1; for a set, Field_Number is the position of the table in the set diagram (starting at line 1).

Description

Returns the name of a numerically specified field in the given table.

Discussion

FIELD() returns the Field_Name of the field specified by its Field_Number in the table specified by the Table_Name parameter.

Example

The following script was placed under a button on the Customer Information form of the customer table in the AlphaSports database. When pressed, the message box displayed "Company".

ui_msg_box("Field 4", field("customer", 4))

See Also

• Field Methods
• Field Functions
• Record Functions