Dropdown Item - RelatedReference Property

Member of Dropdown Item (PRIM_MD.DropdownItem)

Data Type - PRIM_OBJT - Base object, use it as the ancestor of components which are not visualized

Details

Lists typically have a simple correlation between the visible item and some kind of underlying data object e.g. A list of customers, employees or orders.

Rather than relying on the field values in the list to manage the related data, or using a dictionary collection to store the link between the list item and a data object, RelatedReference provides a convenient, generic storage point that joins the list item to its data object.

Example

In the AddEmployee routine, a data object is stored against a list item.

In ItemGotFocus event, the RelatedReference is retrieved and used to populate a detailer of some sort.

     Mthroutine Name(AddEmployee)
     Define_Map For(*Input) Class(#DataEmployee) Name(#Employee) Pass(*By_Reference) 

        Add_entry To_list(#List)
        #DropDown.Currentitem.RelatedReference <= #Employee 

     Endroutine 

     Evtroutine Handling(#List.ItemGotFocus) 

        #Detailer.ShowEmployee((#DropDown.CurrentItem.RelatedReference *as #DataEmployee)) 

     Endroutine

See also

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