Extensions.Flash.Audience

Classification

Name	Audience
Short Description	Filters the flash sessions according to audience property
Class	Simple Data Type
Base Data Type	SimpleType
Default Value	SUPPLIER
Provide a Literal	Yes
SpecifiedBy	ISO 13209-3
Standard Compliant	Yes

Description

Audience is an enumeration type which is used by the term GetListOfValidFlashSessions (for filtering flash sessions according to audience property) as well as by the term BlockIsValidForAudience.

The list of allowed enumeration values is defined as follows:

Value	Literal	Description
SUPPLIER	@Audience:SUPPLIER	-
DEVELOPMENT	@Audience:DEVELOPMENT	-
MANUFACTURING	@Audience:MANUFACTURING	-
AFTERSALES	@Audience:AFTERSALES	-
AFTERMARKET	@Audience:AFTERMARKET	-

Order Relation

Audience values may occur as operands of comparisons. For this case, the following order relation is defined. Started with the lowest value SUPPLIER = 0:

SUPPLIER < DEVELOPMENT < MANUFACTURING < AFTERSALES < AFTERMARKET.

Literal

The syntax for Literals for complex data types will be used, where the member value is one of the values in the list.

@Audience:SUPPLIER|DEVELOPMENT|MANUFACTURING|AFTERSALES|AFTERMARKET

Core Conversion

The following table shows the rules for conversion to another data type:

Conversion	Result	Sample
ToBoolean	Undefined (should not be used)
ToInteger	Returns the index of the value in the Audiences enumeration (smallest index is 0)	Integer val = ToInteger(@Audience:SUPPLIER); // Returns 0
ToFloat	Undefined (should not be used)
ToString	Returns the name of the enumeration value	String s = ToString(@Audience:SUPPLIER); // Returns "SUPPLIER"
ToByteField	Undefined (should not be used)

Sample

Flash.Audience AudienceVariable = @Audience:SUPPLIER;