Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
AppBuilder

SmartDataViewers

While the SmartDataBrowser is useful for rapidly scanning many records, it is less easy to focus on the fields of a single record. This is particularly true when there are a large number of fields involved. The SmartDataBrowser can only display data in tabular format; no more subtle arrangement is possible.

The SmartDataViewer displays fields from a single record at a time. By default, each field is represented by a fill-in widget, and the fields are stacked in a single left-aligned column. In contrast to the SmartDataBrowser, you can completely rearrange the fields of a SmartDataViewer master to suit your layout, and can even replace individual fill-ins with special-purpose SmartDataFields that you create.

The SmartDataViewer instances you use in your applications are each based on a master object that you design. SmartDataViewer masters are static objects; you design each one to display records supplied by a particular SmartDataObject. Once you design a SmartDataViewer master, you can reuse it repeatedly in your applications.