Data Form and Data Table: _getViewerAttribute

Data Form and Data Table: _getViewerAttribute

Returns the value of a viewer attribute for a particular column

Delegated to: Data Set Data Model class

Syntax
Details

Syntax

CALL SEND (object-id, '_getViewerAttribute', col-name, attr-name, attr-value-1<...attr-value-n>);

Argument Type
Description

col-name
C specifies the name of the column for which to get the attribute.

attr-name
C specifies the name of the viewer attribute to be returned.

attr-value
C|N returns the value of the viewer attribute specified. Multiple values are returned when the viewer attribute has more than one value. For example, viewer attribute BDRSTYLE has two values, one for the type of border and the second for the area of the window.

Argument	Type	Description
col-name	C	specifies the name of the column for which to get the attribute.
attr-name	C	specifies the name of the viewer attribute to be returned.
attr-value	C\|N	returns the value of the viewer attribute specified. Multiple values are returned when the viewer attribute has more than one value. For example, viewer attribute BDRSTYLE has two values, one for the type of border and the second for the area of the window.

Details

This method allows you to get a viewer attribute that was set with the _setViewerAttribute method. If no value was set for the requested attribute with the _setViewerAttribute method, then no value is returned. See the _setViewerAttribute method for a list of the attributes that can be returned by _getViewerAttribute.

Note: The _getViewerAttribute method can only be called from the model's SCL. It is not valid in the DFINIT or DFTERM labels. [cautionend]

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