We have previously published this article, however we have had recent queries raised that have been dealt with by way of existing User Defined Constants. User-Defined Constants allow an Administrator to specify a fixed value for a Constant. By having the Constant in this table called USERDEFINEDCONSTANTS, it allows you to amend the value of the Constant without going into Scripts that may use it. These Constants are typically used by Developer Partners in scripting or Custom Reporting, however Development-X also makes use of these.
User Defined Constants published by Development-X allow you to control the default behaviour of Ostendo. Development-X makes use of these to increase the functionality of Ostendo. These can act like switches to control how Ostendo can process or display information. New constants are added over time as Development-X continues to make use of this approach to provide further flexibility and functionality to Ostendo without the need to publish official Updates. By using this approach, we can control behaviour in one database different to that in another.
Constants only need to be defined if you wish to make use of the additional logic associated with the Constant.
Below is a link to all current Development-X User Defined Constants. It should be noted, that these constants are generally only available to the most Current Ostendo Update.
These constants are also found in the Help Desk Articles section Operational -> User Defined Constants or can be downloaded from:
http://ostendo.info/downloads/ostendo/User_Defined_Constants.pdf | 