Users Guide
Working with DataWindows

Table of Contents

About DataWindow objects

DataWindow object examples

How to use DataWindow objects

Choosing a presentation style

Using the Tabular style

Using the Freeform style

Using the Grid style

Using the Label style

Using the N-Up style

Using the Group style

Using the Composite style

Using the Graph and Crosstab styles

Using the OLE 2.0 style

Using the RichText style

Using the TreeView style

Building a DataWindow object

Selecting a data source

Using Quick Select

Selecting a table

Selecting columns

Specifying sorting criteria

Specifying selection criteria

Using SQL Select

Selecting tables and views

Selecting columns

Displaying the underlying SQL statement

Joining tables

Using retrieval arguments

Specifying selection, sorting, and grouping criteria

Using Query

Using External

Using Stored Procedure

Using a Web service data source (Obsolete)

Using the OData Service (Obsolete)

Choosing DataWindow object-wide options

Generating and saving a DataWindow object

About the extended attribute system tables and DataWindow objects

Saving the DataWindow object

Modifying an existing DataWindow object

Defining queries

Previewing the query

Saving the query

Modifying a query

What's next