Restore the inheritance relationship for a field
If you have interrupted the inheritance relationship between a parent field and its child it is possible to restore that relationship.
You can restore the inheritance relationship for a field by following these steps:
- Expand the Project Tree and select the class that contains the field that you want to edit.
-
Optionally,
view the class contents if they are not
already displayed.
The hidden class contents are displayed.
-
From the
Field populated by list select
<inherited>.
This restores the field back to its inherited behavior and any modifications made to the non-formatting settings that were allowed when the relationship was interrupted, are now ignored.
If you view the details of this field you can see that the values for settings that you modified when the inheritance relationship was interrupted are still visible. However, these settings are now disabled and they are ignored during processing. The parent field settings are used instead due to the restored inheritance behavior.