Public Data Objects¶

Public Data Objects are available for usage when developing Vinyl apps. These objects reside in the Vinyl data source and can be used in Business Rule logic. The different Public Data Objects are listed below, drill down for more information on each object.

See Access to Public Data Objects for information on using Public Data Objects.

Applications¶

• App_DataObject_List - Tables and data objects within the current application.
• App_Image - Images within the current application.
• App_List - Visible Vinyl applications.
• App_Page_List - Active pages within the current application.
• App_Role - Roles associated with the current application.
• ControlType_List - Control types.
• PageViewLog - Lists page views and pages by user, by date.

Data Sources¶

• DataSource - Data sources.
• Event_List - Table events.
• Table - Tables, data objects and rules.

Localization and Internationalization¶

These public data objects support localization and internationalization.

• Country - Active countries.
• Culture - Available cultures (locales).
• TimeZone - Active time zones.
• TranslatePhrase - Queue phrase translation.

Background Service¶

These public data objects provide visibility into the background service.

• EventHistory - Event execution history.
• Job - Background service jobs.
• Schedule - Background service schedules.

Security¶

• Authenticate - Authenticates the client using the supplied identity and claims.
• Challenge - Issues a challenge to the given security provider.
• Group - View security groups.
• Identity_Current - Current user's identities.
• IdentityClaim_Current - Current user's identity claims.
• Key_Generate - Generate a key for a user.
• Provider - Available security providers.
• User_Create - Provision a user.
• User_Current_ChangePassword - Allows current user to change his or her password.
• User - Read/write access to users.
• User_Current - Read/write access to current user.
• User_LocalAuthentication - Local authentication settings.
• User_Read - Read-only access to users.
• User_SetPassword - Sets a user's password.
• UserGroup - View and modify security group membership.
• UserRole - User role membership.

Realms¶

These public data objects are designed to work within a realm.

• Realm_Group - Realm security groups.
• Realm_Provider - Realm security providers.
• Realm_User_Create - Provision a user within a realm.
• Realm_UserGroup - Realm user group membership.

Bridges and Notifications¶

The bridge public data objects Bridge_Send_Email, Bridge_Send_Sms, and Bridge_Send_Vinyl_Alert are documented here.

• Notification_Create - Send a notification.

Translations¶

These public data objects provide access to various translation tables used by Vinyl.

• Bundle - Get a list of Bundles in Vinyl.
• Bundle_App - Show the bundle used by an application.
• Language - Show the enabled languages on this Vinyl instance.
• TranslatePhrase - Send a phrase for translation.
• Translation - Retrieve the list of translations in Vinyl.
• Translation_Format - List the translation formats.
• Translation_Type - List the translation types.
• Translation_User - Retrieve translations for the current user and application.

Vinyl Connector¶

These public data objects are used by the Vinyl Connector and not designed for general purpose use.

• Column_Public - Columns in public data objects.
• DataSource_Public - Data sources with public data objects.
• Event_Public - Public data object events.
• Table_Public - Public data objects.

Internal Use¶

• App_SiteMenu - Links that appear on the site menu.
• Native_App_TabMenu - Menu items for native application tab menu.