ADD-PARENT-ID-RELATION( ) method

Adds a data-relation object for a pair of parent and child buffers that is based on the RECID of the parent buffer to a dynamic ProDataSet object. It also sets the PARENT-ID-RELATION attribute to TRUE.

Return type: HANDLE

Applies to: ProDataSet object handle

Syntax

ADD-PARENT-ID-RELATION ( parent-buffer-handle , child-buffer-handle , 
  [parent-id-field[ , parent-fields-before [ , parent-fields-after]]] )

parent-buffer-handle

Specifies a handle to the parent buffer in the data-relation object.

child-buffer-handle

Specifies a handle to the child buffer in the data-relation object.

parent-id-field

Indicates the RECID in child-buffer-handle on which this parent-id-relation object is based. This is an optional CHARACTER expression. The default value is the name of the parent-buffer-handle appended with "_id".

parent-fields-before

Indicates an optional CHARACTER expression evaluating to a comma-separated list of fields from the parent record to be written to XML before any nested child-buffer-handle records.

parent-fields-after

An optional CHARACTER expression evaluating to a comma-separated list of fields from the parent record to be written to XML after all nested child-buffer-handle records.

See also

PARENT-ID-RELATION attribute