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Posted November 09, 2018
Customizing Display Fields Appearance is a part of the DAT Fields - Step 2 process. For each selected DAT Display Field in a DAT Query, a user has an option to customize:

Alias is the name of the heading / column name as it will appear in the result.  If it is left blank, then the heading is based on the field.

Display Format governs the display format of the chosen field.  The available options depend on the type of the field, and this is most useful for dates and currency.
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