Requests and pokes

Requests and Pokes are DDE mechanisms for obtaining a copy of or setting the value of named items. Service Management uses the widget’s input property to name the item. For example, to set the user name on the Service Management login screen, use the following DDE command (this example is in Visual Basic for Applications): DDEPoke nChannel, “$user.id”, “falcon”

Requests and pokes take and return string type data.