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Is there anyway to mask a field? [message #1740441]

Fri, 12 August 2016 15:56

Eclipse User

Its a common need to have a mask functionality so that not all of a fields value is displayed. Commonly, this is used to show only the last 4 digits of Social Security Number

Is there any way to do this in BIRT.

I tried the custom format codes, but it doesnt want to obscure portions of the data value.

Re: Is there anyway to mask a field? [message #1740650 is a reply to message #1740441]

Tue, 16 August 2016 12:10

Eclipse User

OK. I figured this out.
There are probably a bunch of ways to do this.
The easiest one I used was a CalcField (ComputedColumn)

DataType string
Expression "XXX-XX-"+row["SSN"].substring(5,9)

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