| USING 'TAGS' IN abcDB |
One of the other properties that is common to all the controls is the TAG property. TAG names allow us to reference the various controls on our forms. For example, if we add a textbox for entering CITY names, we could give that textbox a TAG name of CITY. Thereafter, whenever we want to refer to the value contained in that textbox, we can use the following syntax where we surround the TAG name with ‘tilde’ characters:
~CITY~
You’ll see how to use TAG names in our ‘hello-world’ application in just a few minutes.
If we want to reference the value in a
FIELD on our form, we can use this
syntax where we surround the field name with braces {} (Note: these are not
brackets!):
{fieldname}