Understanding attribute tag in form XML

[Former Member]

I found the attribute Tag in the following XML(Service Calls Form):

          <item uid="50" type="99" left="93" tab_order="540" width="83" top="196" height="19" visible="1" enabled="1" from_pane="0" to_pane="0" disp_desc="0" right_just="0" description="" linkto="13" forecolor="-1" backcolor="-1" text_style="0" font_size="-1" supp_zeros="0" AffectsFormMode="1">
              <AutoManagedAttribute>
                <Attribute id="2" description="editable" modeView="1" />
              </AutoManagedAttribute>
              <specific caption="Bemerkungen" AffectsFormMode="1" val_on="2" val_off="0">
                <databind databound="1" table="" alias="SYS_71" />
              </specific>
            </item>

What's the meaning of it and it's attributes. For me it doesn't make sense in that context.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Louis

Thanks for your explanations but we meant explicitly:

                <Attribute id="2" description="editable" modeView="1" />

What does this tag and its attributes mean?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Philipp,

This tag is about the visible or editable mode behavior.

Have a look at the GetAutoManagedAttribute method at the UI API help file. The tags value are dependent on what you specify on this method.

Hope helps,

Ibai Peñ

[Former Member]

Hi Philipp,

Most of these attributes map to the properties set for instance in the ScreenPainter or through code.

The node <b>item</b> defines a SAPbouiCOM.Item - (<b><item></item></b>)

• Attribute <b>uid</b> of node <b>item</b> is the <b><i>UniqueID</i></b> property of the item ( UniqueID is 50 )

• Attribute <b>type</b> of node <b>item</b> is the <b><i>Type</i></b> property of the item. (99 indicates a it_FOLDER)

• Attribute <b>left</b> of node <b>item</b> is the <b><i>Left</i></b> property of the item.

• As you can see the attributes will map to a property of similar name.

Then getting to sub node <b>specific</b> we will get to the properties specific to the type of item.

Since we are working with a <b>it_Folder</b> we can see the <b><i>Caption</i></b> property. This is set to <b>Bemerkungen</b> in English <b>Remarks</b>.

So now we know we are working with item <b>50</b> of type <b>it_Folder</b> with a caption set to <b>Bemerkungen</b>.

Then looking at the sub <b>specific</b> we can see the sub node <b>databind</b>.

Hope this will help

Message was edited by: Louis Viljoen