Dynamic data bindig into a text field

guys,
i have a label in the report. i wanna do a calculation in the format trigger of that and display the answer on the label. is this possible???
if possible how am i to do it... pls help..
cheers
anushka

Hello,
It is possible to modify the text of a lable dynamically under the following conditions :
- the label value must reference a lexical variable :
&dummy
- use the builtin SRW.SET_FIELD_CHAR (0 , <value> ) in the format trigger to set the lable value dynamically
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