Understanding Scroll Paths

A scroll path is a construction found in the parameter lists of many component buffer functions, which specifies a scroll level in the currently active page. Additional parameters are required to locate a row or a buffer field at the specified scroll level.

Scroll path syntax enables you to eliminate ambiguous references, which, although rare, do sometimes occur in complex components.

See Using Contextual Buffer Field References.

PeopleTools also provides the convenience of object-oriented dot notation and default methods, which produce inherently non-ambiguous references from PeopleCode programs to component buffer data. There are examples of dot notation in this section along with examples of the legacy scroll path syntax.