Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Web Development Guide

Information (info)

Information (info) actions apply to the Messages frame in the default HTML page layout.

The following table lists and describes the info actions:

Action	Description
info.alert|short|long|arg, arg, ...	Adds a message to the status window with an alert.
info.clear	Clears the messages in the info object.
info.confirm|short|long|action|arg, arg, ...	Asks for user confirmation. If OK, then runs action.
info.field|short|long|field|arg, arg, ...	Marks a field for error and displays a message.
info.msg|short|long|arg, arg, ...	Adds a message to the status window.
info.prompt|short|long|action|arg, arg, ...	Asks for user input, then runs action.
info.yesno|short|long|yes-action|no-action| cancel-action	Creates a nonmodal dialog box that requires user response. Runs the first action (yes-action) if the user chooses Yes. Runs the second action (no-action) if the user chooses No. Quits if the user chooses Cancel.
main.info.hide	Hides the info object.
main.info.load([short|long, short|long ...])	Loads indexed messages.
main.info.show	Shows the info object.

Info Action Parameters

short

A character string that specifies a brief version of a message.

Can also be used as an index to look up messages stored in the information object. Use as an index requires:

The long parameter is blank.
Loading of messages, using main.info.load, must be performed after login.

long

A character string that specifies a more detailed version of a message than the short character string.

The character string can optionally contain substitution arguments in the form &n, where n is an integer between 1 and 9 inclusive. Substitutions are performed based on the values specified in the arg parameter.

field

The field name qualified by an SDO name (sdo_name.field_name).

arg, arg, ...

A comma-separated list of constants, field names, variables, or expressions that results in a character string value. These argument values replace substitution parameters in long.

Note: The pipe character (|) is used to separate parameters. See the following example.

Example

This example creates an error message for the state field while validating a customer record:

apph.action("info.field|code invalid|The &1 code needs to be a valid two character US State abbreviation|customer.state");