Is nice to see that the newer versions have improvements on DDT/MS_DESCRIPTION, some time ago I post a question about it on http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic10737-13-1.aspx and Ben say that DDT not support it yet.
These days, I try to get the MS_description to set column headers descriptions automatically from it and some sort of this stuff. I see that the DDT imports it, the BOMapper Map it to an "Description" attribute of the property of the field. Now I Try to get it with the "GetFieldDescription" method of the businessobjects
I see the help (2 hours later that I was implement it :w00t
to see that it exist, this say:
GetFieldDescription Method (FieldName)
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Returns the extended description for a field name (i.e. Customer's Last Name) from the description attribute on the field property. If the Description() attribute is missing, the actual field name will be returned.
I see that all the properties that map fields from BO have a Description attribute, but when MS_Description doesn't have a value, this value are "" (Empty), and when I call MyBO.GetDescription I get a empty value (and not the one from the MyBo.somefieldname)
I "fix" that with this code:
MyDescription = _MyBO.GetFieldDescription("MyField") '<-- it retrieve a empty value
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(MyDescription) Then
MyDescription = _MyBO.GetPropertyDescriptor("MyField").DisplayName
End If
It worked Ok, but I suppose that it is good that if GetFieldDescription detect a empty description atttibute, it retrieve the "somefielname" property string
Thanks for the great support
Fabian.