Caption Property Missing in ECL Field Object

Metastorm

The information in this article applies to:

Product: Process Orchestrator for .NET
Version: 2.0

Issue

• The Caption property is not available for the ECL Field object.

Resolution

• The following VB code snippet reproduces the issue:

  Import Metastorm.ECL
  Dim sCaption as String

  Select Case aField
    Case ECL.FormFieldType.TEXT
      sCaption = getFieldCaption(aField)
  End Select

  Protected function getFieldCaption (fld as ECL.TextField) as String
    return fld.caption
  End function

• Here is a workaround:

  Using ADO.NET, return the MAPNAME, FORMNAME, and FIELDNAME in the form or actionResponse object or obtain them through the addition to Page.Session (if static). Then run the following query to return the caption for the selected field:

  SELECT eCaption
  FROM eField
  WHERE eProcedureName = MAPNAME and eForm = FORMNAME and eField = FIELDNAME

• This has been fixed in later releases.