Event (Type of variable)

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Properties specific to the description of Event variables
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Event (Type of variable)

In french: Evénement

The Event type is used to define all the advanced characteristics of an event: birthday, saint's day, ...

The characteristics of this event can be defined and modified by several WLanguage properties.

This type of variable is used by the Contact variables.

Remark: See Declaring a variable for more details on the declaration of this type of variable and the use of WLanguage properties.

Versions 18 and later

This type of variable is now available for iPhone/iPad applications.

New in version 18

This type of variable is now available for iPhone/iPad applications.

Versions 22 and later

This type of variable is now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

New in version 22

This type of variable is now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

Example

// Retrieves the birthday of a contact
sDate is string
FOR EACH evt OF MyContact..Event
IF evt..Type = evtBirthday THEN
sDate = evt..RoughDate
RETURN
END
END

Remarks

Properties specific to the description of Event variables

The following properties can be used to handle an event:

Property name	Type used	Effect

RoughDate	Character string	Start date of the event. The character string is not formatted.
Label	Character string	Label for the custom types of events (optional). If ..Type does not correspond to the evtCustom constant, the value of this property will be ignored.
Type	Integer constant	Type of event: evtBirthday: Birthday/Date of birth. evtOther: other types. evtAnniversary: Anniversary. evtCustom: custom type corresponding to the value of ..Label. Type of event: evtAnniversary: Anniversary. evtCustom: custom type corresponding to the value of ..Label.

Remark: These properties can be used with one of the following syntaxes:

<Variable name>..<Property name>
<Variable name>.<Property name>

Reinitialization

To reinitialize the content of an Event variable, you have the ability to use VariableReset.