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Chapter 8 Using Expressions and Operators : Indirect Referencing

Indirect Referencing
Uses of Indirect Referencing
To facilitate the coding of generic rules and functions, the rules language permits indirect referencing. You can refer indirectly to:
You can use indirect references in the conditions or actions part of a rule.
Restrictions
You cannot use:
Indirect references in the ON statement itself but you can use them in the statements that form the body of the exception handler
Providing Values
Values for an indirect reference (that is, names of tables, fields, screens, reports, or rules) are provided by:
The value you provide, either through an argument or in a table.field reference, must have a semantic type of identifier or be typeless.

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