I am a VB programmer by trade, and just started using Crystal Reports within the Visual Studio 2005 development suite.

I am impressed with CR and will be using it a lot more from now on.

I'm not sure if many people her are VB programmers, but I have a Crystal Report that reads data in from a DataView that is created in VB.

One of the field names in the DataView is changing. [IssuedBy] is becoming [IssuedByName].

What I would like to do is click the [IssuedBy] field on my Crystal Report, go to Properties, and find an area where I can make the change to the field name that it expects to find from its data source.

I can't seem to find it though!

Any suggestions?

If I were reading directly from a database, I would browse to it in the database and insert a new copy of the field.

But I can't browse a DataView that I build in code.

Can anyone help?

ha, you're a genius.

I had to tweak your idea a little, but it got me looking in the right spot. I made a copy of the original database, changed the field names to the new names, and pointed to the new database instead. Since my code disconnects the CR report from the database anyway and reconnects it to my dataview that is produced at run time, it doesn't matter that CR was once pointed to a temp copy of a database that no longer exists - all that counts is that we fooled CR into changing the field names on the report.

What I really need to learn how to do is create an .xsd file containing the TableAdapter to perform the query I need, plus the corresponding DataTable to store the data. But this solution was easier for now. THANKS!!