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OpenLNS Programmer's Reference 652
(.), and colon (:) characters.
Availability Local, full, lightweight, and independent clients. Note that
some objects that contain this property are not available to
Independent clients.
Syntax stringValue = object.Name
Element Description
stringValue The name of the object.
object The object to be acted on.
Data Type String.
Read/Write Read/write.
Added to API Depends on the object used to access the property. Generally,
this property exists for the objects listed above as soon as
they are added to the API.
Parent
Summary Returns the object that spawned the current child object. The
parent object is determined by the means in which a child
object is accessed, not by the OpenLNS Object hierarchy.
Availability Local, full, lightweight, and independent clients. Note that
some collection objects are not available to Independent
clients.
Syntax parentObject = object.Parent
Element Description
parentObject The object that is the parent of the
specified object.
object Any object for which the parent is
desired.
Data Type Object.
Read/Write Read only.
Added to API Depends on the object used to access the property. Generally,
this property exists for an object as soon as the object is
added to the API.
Tag
Summary Stores any extra data associated with the monitor point or
monitor set.
The data stored in this property is not used by OpenLNS, and
is available as soon as the data point or monitor set is created
in a monitor and control session. You can use this property to
store any data your application may need when using the
monitor set or monitor point. For example, you could store
the name of the monitor set that a message or network
variable monitor point belongs to, or the name of the