Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress 4GL Reference

DICTIONARY statement

Runs the OpenEdge Data Dictionary.

Note: Does not apply to SpeedScript programming.

Syntax

DICTIONARY

Example

This procedure runs the Data Dictionary if the user answers yes to a prompt:

r-dict.p

DEFINE VARIABLE ans AS LOGICAL. DISPLAY "Do you want to access the Dictionary?" WITH ROW 7 COLUMN 20 NO-LABELS. UPDATE ans. IF ans THEN DICTIONARY.

Notes

The DICTIONARY statement is equivalent to RUN dict.p: it runs the Progress procedure called dict.p. Progress uses the regular search rules to find the dictionary procedure. The dictionary procedure is part of the Progress system software.
Progress Query/Run-Time provides a restricted version of the Data Dictionary.
For more information on the Data Dictionary, see its on-line help.