Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Advanced Development

Setting a property at the master level

You set a master property with the Repository Maintenance tool.

To set a property for a DataField to apply to all uses of that field:

Open the Repository Object Maintenance tool from the Build menu and enter the field name, which is always qualified by the database table name it is derived from, as shown:



Expand the objects node for the field in the tree view, then the field node itself, and then the Attributes node. Here you see all the properties for the DataField that are predefined.
Select the Label attribute.
Select the Modify button in the Maintenance frame, and set its value to Customer Number by typing in the Attribute Value field.

When you run any container with the CustNum field in it, such as the window you are building now, it reflects this change, unless the CustNum value has explicitly been set in the viewer or the container window.