Dot notation

When working with Woodford and many other content tools, you often need to exactly identify a field in an entity, or a certain property of an object. We're using the dot notation to identify these. Here are some simple examples:

contact.name

Use the syntax entity.field to refer to a particular field of an entity. In this case, it's the name of our contacts.

Questionnaire.IsNew

Use the syntax object.property to refer to a property of an object. For example, IsNew is a property of a Questionnaire object.

In addition to these simple notations involving two parts, in some cases, you can chain more parts, all connected by dots. For example:

QuestionGroups.location.Question.rate-the-location_1.IsEnabled

This might look intimidating, but in fact, this variable simply allows you to control whether the question about rating from the question group called "location" is enabled in your questionnaire.

Note	One important thing to remember is that in most cases, you don't have to type these in! Instead, you build these by clicking and selecting from drop-down lists. Resco tools will guide you and allow only those elements that make sense in a particular position.