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Expression for Calculating the Control Styles (Overrides Property Definition)

This expression is evaluated to determine either a list of control styles (enumeration type ControlStyle) or a control style definition (object of object class ControlStyleDefinition) used to present the value of a property.
For more information see attrcontrolstyleexpr.

Explanation:
Defines an app.ducx expression that computes the control styles used to display the property (see also itemcontrolstyleexpr).

string[] COOATTREDIT@1.1:itemcontrolstyleexpr (
  object ::root,
  AttributeDefinition ::attribute,
  boolean ::isvalue,
  boolean ::isedit,
  boolean ::iseditcommon,
  boolean ::isdashboard,
  boolean ::issingleattribute,
  Action ::context)

Local Scope: dictionary
Global Scope: dictionary
Returns: ControlStyle[]

Name

Description

::root

contains the object the expression is evaluated for. ::root is identical to cooobj.

::attribute

contains the property the expression is evaluated for.

::isvalue

contains true if the form is used for displaying values (edit mode or read-only mode) opposed to query mode (see valuetype in ApplicationView).

::isedit

contains true if the form is in edit mode opposed to read-only mode (see edittype in ApplicationView). ::isedit is only valid if ::isvalue is true.

::iseditcommon

contains true if the form is used to edit common properties of multiple objects. ::iseditcommon is only valid if ::isvalue is true. In this case ::root/cooobj refer to the first object of the selection.

::isdashboard

contains true if the property is displayed in a dashboard.

::issingleattribute

contains true if the property is displayed in single attribute mode, i. e. when all other properties of a form page are hidden.

::context