Viewing the contents of a record

About this task

If you do not want to edit the contents of a record, you can get the record and look at the values in its fields. To view a record, get the record using one of the methods of the Session object.

Procedure

To view the contents of a record by using a Session object method, follow these steps:

Use the GetEntity method to acquire the record.
Use methods of the returned Entity object to access the record's fields.

Results

To get a list of record types by name, use the following methods of the Session object.

Names: Session object method
All record types: GetEntityDefNames
Record types that have states: GetReqEntityDefNames
Record types that are stateless: GetAuxEntityDefNames
Record types that belong to a record type family: GetQueryEntityDefNames
Record types you can use to create a new record: GetSubmitEntityDefNames

To get the EntityDef object associated with a particular record type, use the GetEntityDef method.