Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
AppBuilder

Basic data viewers

The basic data viewer object, or DB-Fields as it is also called, corresponds in purpose to the SmartDataViewer object. While browsers present fields from many records at once, in a row/column tabular format, the viewer objects display fields from a single record using fill-in widgets, one fill-in per field. The viewer object can display any of the standard data types that can be represented by ASCII text.

Unlike a SmartDataViewer, the basic viewer object manages its own data stream, communicating with the data source on its own behalf rather than tapping into the data stream supplied by a modular data pump such as the SmartDataObject.

Although you can freely place a basic data viewer object in a smart workspace, for example, a SmartWindow, doing so will not enable it to take advantage of SmartLinks or participate in ADM paging.