Object properties

This table lists objects and their properties:

Object Property Description
List, ListView Text Unique name of the displayed element.
List, ListView Alias Caption of the displayed element.
List, ListView Attribute or Attribute 1 The first attribute value.

In a custom hierarchy, Attribute 1 returns the same value as the Name attribute.

List, ListView Attribute 2 The second attribute value.

In a custom hierarchy, Attribute 2 returns the same value as the Description attribute.

List, ListView Attribute 3 The third attribute value.
List, ListView List .Name, to return the name of a list. For example, specify Use with global lists, and in combination with =reportobjects.listview1.list.name to return the name of the list in ListView1.
List, ListView ListResult Use with global lists, and in combination. Returns all members of a list and their member properties as an xml table.

The xml contains element unique names such as keys and all the member properties of the list as properties.

The order of elements in the xml may not correspond to the order of elements in the list. If there are multiple elements with the same unique name in the list, only one occurrences is in the xml.

List, Hyperblock,ListView Set The MDX expression that represents the list definition, including structure selection, filters and sorting.
List, Hyperblock,ListView StructureSet The MDX expression that represents the structure selection of the list.
Hyperblock Text Unique name of the first element displayed in the hyperblock.
Hyperblock Alias Caption of the first element displayed in the hyperblock.
Hyperblock Attribute 1 The first attribute of the first element displayed in the hyperblock.
Hyperblock Attribute 2 The second attribute of the first element displayed in the hyperblock.
Hyperblock Attribute 3 The third attribute of the first element displayed in the hyperblock.
Global Variables Text Current value of the variable.
Global Variables GlobalText Current value of the variable, read from the repository.
Global Variables DefaultText Variable values are set at user log-on. If there is no value for a user, the default value is used. If a variable is non-persistent, the value reverts to the default on log-out.
Report Variables Text Current value of the variable.
Report Variables DefaultText Variable values are set at user log-on. If there is no value for a user, the default value is used. If a variable is non-persistent, the value reverts to the default on log-out.

This table shows the syntax to access the properties of different report objects:

Object Syntax
List GlobalLists.[list_name].[property_name]
Global variable GlobalVariables.[variable_name].[property_name]
Report variable ReportVariables.[variable_name].[property_name]
ListViews (combo boxes, list boxes, option buttons) ReportObjects.[ListView_name].[property_name]
Hyperblocks ReportObjects.[hyperblock_name].[property_name]

Good practice

Application Studio recognizes an object's type by its name and automatically includes the object type in formulas. Therefore the output of these two formulas is the same:

  • =[myvariable].text
  • =ReportVariables.[myvariable].text

However, if there is a global variable of the same name as the report variable, Application Studio displays an error.

We recommend that you specify the object type explicitly.

You can access up to three attributes of an object. If an object has only one attribute you can refer to it as Attribute or Attribute1.

We recommend that you specify the attribute number.