The first two statements in this part extract the short description of the data-item (the description field of the data-item form) and prints it out. The template uses a database extraction function to assign a value to the variable
di_sdesc
for the data-item represented bydi
. TheWRITE
statement that follows inserts a blank line, then writes the description (di_sdesc
) of the data-item.Next, two statements extract the data-item’s synonym and prints it.