ActualName Property

Returns the name of the column as it appears in the data source.

Syntax

public System.string ActualName {get;}

Example

This code sample will set Label1 to "Campaign Id"

//Add the campaigns table to this new data source
Entity myNewEntity = api.Entities.NewEntity("Campaigns");
myNewEntity.DataSourceId = api.DataSources.GetDataSource("Donations MSSQL").Id;
myNewEntity.ObjectType = DataObjectType.Table;
myNewEntity.Id = "campaigns";
myNewEntity.DbName = "Campaigns";
myNewEntity.Name = "campaigns";
myNewEntity.ObjectDescription = "Fundraising campaigns";
myNewEntity.Category = "CRM\\Sales";

//Add column metadata for the "Campaign ID" column
myNewEntity.ColumnMetadatas.Add(new EntityColumnMetadata("Campaign ID")
{
	IsFilterable = FilterableType.None,
	ColumnType = "Int",
	MnemonicName = "ID"
});

//Retrieve the ActualName of a column from this entity.
Label1.Text = myNewEntity.GetColumn("ID").ActualName;

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