Some Work Query command parameters can accept a source of either a Work Query Field name or a text literal. Text literals in these cases are prefixed with a backtick ` character.

These commands take the source parameter value as a string, and that string could contain any one of the following:

• `Escaped text literal
• < HTML tag or anything less than "A" (ASCII 65)</li>
• FieldName (in the Work Query)

What you pass to this parameter can come from a text literal in double quotes, or it could come from a Top Query field name (with or without a leading ` to be prepended), or it could come from an expression that is solved in the context of the Top Query .

The complete list of possibilities includes:

• TopQueryStoredWorkFieldName (i.e. pseudo indirection)
• “WorkQueryFieldName”
• `TopQueryStoredTextLiteral
• “`Text Literal”
• "< HTML tag or anything less than "A" (ASCII 65)"</li>
• (“FieldBase.” & TopQueryStoredPartialWorkFieldName) (i.e. an expression resulting in a WQ field name)
• (“`Text Literal “ & TopQueryAdditionalText & “ even more”)
• `(TopQueryText & “ with more”)
• `$BuiltInTextValue

The backtick is only applicable when a MOX command is:

1. A Work Query command
   and
2. The parameter in question is a source parameter that can accept either a Work Query field name or a text literal

Most MOX commands don’t use the backtick, but the Build, Text, and most variations of Set that do use them are commonly used themselves. The complete list of commands that use this syntax are:

Example

This is a comprehensive example for demonstration of syntax only. What it does is not something that should be deemed useful or typical as-is

Rem 'Routing
    [Pull]  FieldName
    Backtick.Start FieldName
EndRem

Method Backtick.Start(pFieldName)
    Rem 'Get our data
        LoadRecord  "MemTab.Person", ($SessionUser)
    EndRem
    
    Rem 'Demonstrate Backtick usage
        If pFieldName
            
            Build       "MemTab.Person.",       _ 'Field Base
                        pFieldName,             _ 'Destination. Top Query Field contains a Work Query Field Name
                        "                        `pFieldName,            _ 'Top Query Field used as plain text
                        "'>",                   _ 'Plain text, starting < "A"
                        "`Test with ",          _ 'Plain text escaped with `
                        pFieldName,             _ 'Top Query Field contains a Work Query Field Name
                        " in ",                 _ 'Plain text, starting < "A"
                        `pFieldName,            _ 'Top Query Field used as plain text
                        "",                 _ 'Plain text, starting < "A"
                        pFieldName                'IfLenFld (If Length Bool Test Field) from Top Query
            
            NewFields   "MemTab.Person.",               _ 'Field Base
                        (pFieldName & ".Build")           'Expression in Top Query for Work Query Field Name
            
            [New] EgFBase = "MemTab.Person"
            Build       (EgFBase & "."),                _ 'Field Base created via Top Query Expression
                        (pFieldName & ".Build"),        _ 'Expression in Top Query for Work Query Field Name
                        `($SessionName & ": "),         _ 'Expression in Top Query for plain text result
                        "Email",                        _ 'Work Query Field Name
                        pFieldName                        'IfLenFld (If Length Bool Test Field) from Top Query
        Else
            Html    "Test with FirstName value in FirstName"
        End If
    EndRem
    
    Rem 'Put it on the page
        HtmlTable
    EndRem
End Method