DISPLAY VIEW
Purpose
Display information about the specified view file
Syntax
DISPLAY VIEW <expC1> [TO FILE <.txt filename> | (<expC2>)] | [TO PRINT]
See Also
ALIAS(), CREATE, CREATE SCREEN, CREATE VIEW, DB_PRINT, DBF(), DISPLAY INDEXES, DISPLAY STATUS, DISPLAY STRUCTURE, FMT(), Function Keys, LIST INDEXES, LIST VIEW, MODIFY SCREEN, MODIFY STRUCTURE, MODIFY VIEW, SELECT(), SET PAGELENGTH, SET PAGEWIDTH, SET PRINTER
Description
The DISPLAY VIEW command displays on screen information about the view file named in <expC1>.
The DISPLAY VIEW command displays the following information:
- View Format Name, e.g. customer.vue
and for each workarea specified in the view file:
- Workarea number
- Table file name
- Alias name
- Index file names
- Screen format file name
DISPLAY commands differ from LIST commands in that they pause every 17 lines until a key is pressed. You can cancel any further output at this point by pressing the [ABANDON] key. Where the output is sent to a file or printer, the pause is disabled.
| Keyword | Description |
|---|---|
| <expC1> | The name of the view to display. |
| TO <file> | The display output will be sent to the specified file. The filename can be substituted with a <expC2>, enclosed in round brackets, which returns a valid filename. If no file extension is specified, then ".txt" will be used. The command SET PAGELENGTH governs the output file pagination and SET PAGEWIDTH defines the width of each page. Page numbers are centered on the bottom of the page according to width. |
| TO PRINT | The display output will be sent to a printer. The TO PRINT option will default to a local printer unless the command SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER is issued. The print request will then be spooled to the system printer, which is defined by the environment variable DB_PRINT. |
Example
display view customer
Products
Recital Server, Recital
