OpenEdge Development:<br />Progress Dynamics Basic Development Editing properties for Repository objects

The Dynamic property sheet integrates with other Progress Dynamics tools, allowing properties or attributes to be assigned to or defined for dynamic objects. This tool also addresses the requirement to customize objects. This tool allows customization result codes to be specified.

It functions similarly to an ActiveX property sheet, with a grid-like interface that allows the editing of attributes and their values in one row per attribute. It consists of a nonmodal window with a list of allowable attributes or properties that can be edited for a specified object.

If you open a Repository object and then its Dynamic Property sheet in AppBuilder, you are looking at the master attributes for that object. Any changes here affect all instances of the object. When you access the Dynamic Property sheet from the Container Builder for an object instance, you are viewing the properties of only the selected instance.

Click in the dynamic object design window to make it the current AppBuilder design object.

Choose the Dynamic Properties icon on the toolbar of the AppBuilder window.

The Dynamic Properties sheet dialog box appears for the design window you selected.

Make the necessary changes to the object’s properties in the Property Sheet dialog box. (Choose Help if you need more information about the options on this dialog box.)

Save the object in the AppBuilder.

Note: If a static object is registered in the Repository, you can apply attributes using the Dynamic Property sheet. For a viewer, you can only apply attributes to the viewer, and not to items in the viewer.