Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
ADM and SmartObjects

Data SmartLink

The Data SmartLink’s source object can tell its target objects that a record is waiting in the data source.

To maintain a Data SmartLink, the ADM requires the source and target objects to SUBSCRIBE to and implement the events shown in Table 3–7. Specifically:

The Data-Target SUBSCRIBEs to the source events in the Data-Source procedure handle, and must implement the corresponding internal procedure names.
The Data-Source SUBSCRIBEs to target events in the Data-Target procedure handle, and must implement the corresponding internal procedures.

Table 3–7: Data events 

DataSourceEvents	DataTargetEvents
dataAvailable queryPosition deleteComplete fetchDataSet	updateState

The Data SmartLink typically connects the following types of SmartObjects:

Source — SmartDataObject
Target — SmartDataObject, SmartDataViewer, SmartDataBrowser