Reading Field Labels from Lookup Table

Post Author: Ohmylord
CA Forum: Formula
I'm trying to read the field labels from the database so I can have one set of reports and have them work in multiple languages by changing the display value. I created a lookup table that has these fields and values: ID EnglishValue DisplayValue1 Customer Cliente2 CustomerNumber Numero del Clienteetc. I then created a formula field for each label (@Customer Label, @CustomerNumber Label). The formula just contains the DisplayValue field. Then I used Select Records and added a Where ID=1 or ID=2. The problem is that whatever the last value I put in for the ID applies to each of the different formulas I created. In other words, it reads the labels from the database, but they are all the same. It seems like it should be pretty easy but I'm obviously missing something. Most reports probably have 15 or so labels on them. Thanks for any help!

Post Author: Ohmylord
CA Forum: Formula
Here's some sample data from the table I created.
   Translation
   Autonumber
   ID
   EnglishLabel
   DisplayValue
1
1
Customer
Cliente
2
2
Customer Number
Codice Cliente
3
3
Quote Date
Data Quota
4
4
Expiration Date
Data Scadenza
What I want on the report is 4 fields each one would show a different value. The simplified select statement I'm trying to get for the different fields is something like:Field 1 - Select DisplayValue where ID=1Field 2 - Select DisplayValue where ID=2etc for the other 2 fields.   When a different user has a different language we would just populate the DisplayValue with different data.

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