Input/Output Processes : Creating Reports : Converting widget values to report data
Converting widget values to report data
When reporting, you want to output data, but not the widget that represents that data. Of the data widgets, you can directly output the data of these widgets to all devices: fill-in fields, text widgets, and editors. You can output these data widgets to the screen only: toggle box, radio set, slider, combo box, and selection list.
In the last section, you learned about the USE-TEXT and VIEW-AS text options to convert other widgets to text widgets. In this section, you will learn about two more important techniques for handling widgets:
Using the STREAM-IO option of the frame phrase to convert all data widgets in a frame to text widgets
Using the editor for formatting long text strings as blocks of text
Using the STREAM-IO option of the frame phrase to convert all data widgets in a frame to text widgets
