Name mapping?

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Mike

i didn't know where to put this, so it's going in general.

I'm making a shell database program. i'll be using the database for
different customers but the same value types will be used.

i'll have values like Analog1, analog2, analog3.....digita1, digital2,
digital3, Parameter1, Parameter2, and the like for times, dates, text fields.

The reasoning behind this is there is another program that will dump the
data into the DB, and we're trying to standardize taht, so we write one data
dump, and have a good DB shel that we can make reports/forms for each project.

now my question is this:

Is there a way to "link" names to those general fields? such that when i
put in "Parameter1" it comes up as something like "Front Limit"?

I was thinking of having a 1 record table, tblName, and having the fields
same as the "nameless" Parameter#/Analog#/etc. and having the "real" name
listed.

then in the forms/reports, instead of using the lable box, it'd be another
"data box" that looks like the lable box, and using the tblName for the
control source.

any other suggestions?

thanks for your help
 
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