Detail Band in DataWindows

The detail band shows retrieved data. It is also where the user enters and updates data.

The number of rows of data that appear simultaneously in PowerBuilder at one time is determined by this expression:

(Height of the DataWindow object - Height of headers and footers) / Height of the detail band

The presentation style determines the contents of the detail band:

If the presentation style is Tabular, Grid, N-Up, or Label, the detail band displays column names, representing the columns.
If the presentation style is Freeform, the labels defined for the columns in the Database painter appear in the detail band, with boxes for the data to the right.

You can define the display and validation information for each column of the DataWindow object, and add other controls, such as text, pictures, graphs, and drawing controls.

How PowerBuilder names the columns in the Design view

If the DataWindow object uses only one table, the names of the columns in the Design view are the same as the names in the table.

If the DataWindow object uses more than one table, the names of the columns in the Design view are tablename_columnname. This prevents ambiguity, since different tables can have columns with the same name.