Presentation styles

All presentation styles except OLE, Graph,
and RichText are supported. Unsupported presentation styles retrieve
data but display nothing. The Grid presentation style is rendered
as an HTML table if you use the HTML format, and as a result absolute positioning
is not supported and the display characteristics differ from those
of XML and XHTML Web DataWindows.

Nested and composite reports

Supported for the XHTML format only.

Controls

Supported controls: Column, Computed
Field, Graph, Text, Picture, Button, GroupBox, Rectangle.

These controls are ignored: OLE Object, OLE Database Blob,
RoundRectangle, Oval, InkPicture.

Report controls are supported in XHTML Web DataWindows only.

Rectangles cannot be rendered in a Label DataWindow with any
rendering format when the layer of the Rectangle is foreground,
unless the height of the DataWindow control is set to a fixed value.

The following Rectangle properties are not supported: moveable,
pointer, resizeable, slideleft, slideup, brush.hatch, pen.style

GroupBoxes cannot be rendered in Crosstab and Grid style DataWindows.

The following GroupBox properties are not supported: moveable,
pointer, resizeable, slideleft, slideup, font.charset, font.width.

Only horizontal Line controls are supported. The line’s
color property is always rendered, and the width property is rendered
if the line is solid. Other line styles are displayed as solid lines
with the default width. Vertical and slanted lines are ignored.

For information on:

• Expressions for computed
  fields, see “Using expressions”.

• Images for Picture controls, see “Using Picture controls”.

• Including valid HTML in a control, see “Including HTML in a control”

• Button controls and supported actions, see “Using Button controls “.

Retrieving data

Up to 16 retrieval arguments are supported.
Filtering and sorting are supported by setting properties with the
Modify method or calling methods on the server component. Sorting
can also be specified by using a client control method.

User-specified queries using the QueryMode property are not
supported.

Updating data

Same as the PowerBuilder DataWindow control.
The DataWindow object must contain editable columns.

Edit styles

All edit styles are supported except
InkEdit and EditMask, with the exception of the DDCalendar EditMask.
If the DataWindow uses the EditMask edit style, the styles specified
are treated as though they were specified as a display format.

DDCalendar EditMask property

The DDCalendar EditMask property option
allows for separate selections of the calendar month, year, and
date. This option can be set in a check box on the Edit tab of the
DataWindow painter Properties view when a Date or DateTime column
with the EditMask edit style is selected. It can also be set in
code, as in this example for the birth_date column:

For more information, see “Using a drop-down calendar “.

DropDownDataWindows

A drop-down DataWindow must be in the
same PBL as the DataWindow in which it is used. Data for drop-down
DataWindows is retrieved on the server. See “Using drop-down DataWindows”. The dddw.lines
property is not supported in Web pages because the browser controls
how the DropDownDataWindow displays.

Display formats

Supported, including the use of color.

Validation rules

The expression might be evaluated on
the client or the server, depending on the expression.

For information, see “Using expressions”.

Property expressions

Evaluated on the server.

Layout

Properties that specify autosizing of
height and width or allow the user to resize or move controls, such
as SlideLeft and SlideRight, are ignored.

Properties

The following properties are not supported:

• EditMask.Spin DataWindow object property

• Sparse (Suppress Repeating Values) DataWindow object
  property

• RightToLeft DataWindow control property

• The ShowConnectLines and ShowLeafNodeConnectLines
  properties of the TreeView Web DataWindow

The Limit property is not supported in multiline edit columns
in a Web DataWindow. In JavaScript, the multiline edit column maps
to a textarea object, and the limit property maps to a maxlength
attribute, which the textarea object does not support.

Tab order

Supported in HTML 4 and later browsers.

Drop Align Right

Column.Editmask.ddcal_alignright

CalendarBackColor

Column.Editmask.ddcal_backcolor

CalendarTextColor

Column.Editmask.ddcal_textcolor

CalendarTitleBackColor

Column.Editmask.ddcal_titlebackcolor

CalendarTitleTextColor

Column.Editmask.ddcal_titletextcolor

CalendarTrailingTextColor

Column.Editmask.ddcal_trailingtextcolor