Information Description Is Dynamically Derived

Typically a FK Reference is defined for a maintenance object's primary table. In this case the system dynamically derives the standard information associated with a specific referenced entity as follows:

Attempt to determine the business object associated with the referenced entity. Refer to the Determine BO maintenance object algorithm system event for more information. If a business object has been determined, the system lets the business object's Information plug-in, if any, format the description.
If a business object has not been determined or the business object has no such plug-in, the system lets the maintenance object's information plug-in, if any, format the description.
If the maintenance object has no such plug-in, the system uses the info program specified on the FK Reference to format the description.

Note: Technical note. For both Java and COBOL, the class / program that returns the information displayed adjacent to the referenced entity is generated specifically for use as an info routine. Please speak to your support group if you need to generate such a class / program.

Note: Generic routine. The system provides a generic information routine that returns the description of control table objects from its associated language table. By "control table" we mean a table with an associated language table that contains a DESCR field. Refer to Defining Table Options for more information on tables and fields. For COBOL, the name of the generic routine is Get Description Info. For Java, the java class is com.splwg.base.domain.common.foreignKeyReference.DescriptionRetriever.