How to change View Attribute Name?

Question

Is there a way to change the attribute name of a view object that was added from and entity Object?
I dont want to change the Entity Attribute Name since i want to use it in diferent view objects with diferent names...

Answer 1

Hi Frank
It would be very convenient to have view object attribute name updateable because the attributes may result from different joins (to same table) and have different meaning depending more on the association than to the table attribute itself (in most case the relationship extend the meaning of the attribute).
In my use case i have :
A table FlexTypologyClassMatrix with two foreign key pointed to FlexTypologyClass primary table. That mean that my matrix have two axis defined by the primary key of FlexTypologyClass table.
I created a view object that correspond to this scheme with eo's FlexTypologyClassMatrix, FlexTypologyClass as FlexTypologyClassAxisX, FlexTypologyClassAxisY).
The view object attributes from eo's FlexTypologyClassMatrixAxisX or Y are generated from the table attribute name with a suffix like FlextypologyclassL (for FlexTypologyClassMatrixAxisX) and FlextypologyclassL1 (FlexTypologyClassMatrixAxisY).
The attribute name are the most used item used later in the development cycle and this is not easy to distinguish the X from the Y without analyzing the view object definition. It's not a very productive way to develop application.
It would be very convenient to permit the view object attribute name to be updateable or the alias name of the entity object in the view object has to be displayed with, every time.
I didn't check if the info is displayed every tiem, may be it is a workaround !?
Hope you understand what I mean. Thank you.