Working with edit styles

You work with edit styles in the Enterprise Explorer and DataWindow editor.

What you do in the Enterprise Explorer

In the Enterprise Explorer, you can:

Create, modify, and delete named edit styles

The edit styles are stored in the extended attribute system tables. Once you define an edit style, it can be used by any column of the appropriate datatype in the database.
Assign edit styles to columns

These styles are used by default when you place the column in a DataWindow object in the DataWindow editor.

What you do in the DataWindow editor

In the DataWindow editor, you can:

Accept the default edit style assigned to a column in the Enterprise Explorer
Override the default edit style with another named style stored in the extended attribute system tables
Create an ad hoc, unnamed edit style to use with one specific column

Edit styles and the extended attribute system tables

When you have placed a column in a DataWindow object and have given it an edit style (either the default style from the assignment made in the Enterprise Explorer for the column or a style assigned in the DataWindow editor), Sybase WorkSpace records the name and definition of the edit style in the DataWindow object.

However, if the definition of the edit style later changes in the extended attribute system tables, the edit style for the column in a DataWindow object will not change automatically. You can update the column by reassigning the edit style to it in the DataWindow object.