Memo fields in Crystal Database Expert

We are developing a set of commission reports and need to pick up our sales person code from a UDF.  The UDF is Alphanumeric and does not show in the list of available fields for linking in the Database Expert.  Is there a way to get these to appear in the selection list or do we need to construct SQL statements within the report to pick up this information?
Thanks,
Jim

Hi,
If you are just want to get a data from only one table no need to query. Much better if you make it a query because every module have different tables. For the Title information it have different table and Row have different table but you can link them. Please try also to check and verify if the UDF field is not empty or NULL thats why no data have been shown.
Regards,
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