CDO$HELP.HLB  —  fld-properties  QUERY_NAME
    Format

                      { quoted-string }
      QUERY_NAME  IS  { query-name    }
                      {               }

1  –  Parameters

1.1  –  quoted-string

    Specifies a string that is enclosed by quotation marks. DIGITAL
    DATATRIEVE only uses the string itself (not the quotation marks
    that enclose it) as the query name.

1.2  –  query-name

    Specifies a string that is not enclosed by quotation marks.

2  –  Description

    The QUERY_NAME field property provides an alternate name for a
    field element. Only DIGITAL DATATRIEVE supports this property.

    CDO accepts query names of up to 256 characters in length. Except
    for the quotation mark ("),  comma (,), apostrophe ('),  and
    embedded blanks, any characters in the Digital Multinational
    Character Set are valid in query names.

    Make sure the query name you specify is valid for the product
    that uses it.

    CDO does not check whether the string you specified for the query
    name is valid.

    When you assign a query name to a field element, products that
    support the QUERY_NAME field property can refer to the field
    element either by its query name or its processing name.

3  –  Examples

  CDO>  DEFINE FIELD TOTAL_PRICE
  cont>   DATATYPE IS UNSIGNED LONGWORD
  cont>   COMPUTED BY UNIT_PRICE * QUANTITY
  cont>   QUERY_NAME IS "TP".

      In this example, the QUERY_NAME field property in the DEFINE
      FIELD command specifies the TP alternate name for the TOTAL_
      PRICE field element.
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