Event (Variable type)

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Properties specific to Event variables
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Event (Variable type)

In french: Evénement

The Event type allows you to define all the advanced features of an event (birthday, anniversary, etc.)

You can define and change the characteristics of this event using different WLanguage properties.

This type of variable is used by the Contact variables.

Note: For more details on the declaration of this type of variable and the use of WLanguage properties, see Declaring a variable.

Example

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

Properties

Properties specific to Event variables

The following properties can be used to handle an event:

Property name	Type used	Effect

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

Remarks

Reinitialization

You can use VariableReset to reset the contents of an Event variable.