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Converting Widget Values to Report Data

When reporting, you want to output data, but not the widget that represents that data. Of the data widgets, you can directly output the data of these widgets to all devices: fill-in fields, text widgets, and editors. You can output these data widgets to the screen only: toggle-box, radio set, slider, combo box, and selection list.

In the last section, you learned about the USE-TEXT and VIEW-AS text options to convert other widgets to text widgets. In this section, you’ll learn about two more important techniques for handling widgets:


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