Returns the record that will be implicitly used in a calculation.
Function
context()Arguments
| Argument | Data Type |
| result | entity |
|---|
Comments
The context function explicitly returns the record that would otherwise be implicitly used for accessing fields.
Typically a calculation will implicitly be working in the context of some record, so field and relationship names such as [First Name] can be typed directly and are implicitly understood. However, sometimes the record itself is needed and the context function provides this. Put differently, context().[Some field] is always equivalent to [Some field].
A common use of the context function is when a calculation needs to refer to a field or relationship that is defined on some object that inherits the current record.
Examples
Assume that the following is a calculated column on a report of Vehicle records, where:
- Car inherits from Vehicle
- Registration is a field on Car
convert(Car, context()).[Registration] -- this will return the registration when the current row is a Car record