There are two forms of the oleActivate function. The first, simply takes an object, activates OLE stored in "Object Text" and returns whether the OLE was successfully activated. The second form takes an Object, a Column and an integer index. It returns a string. I have two questions.

What is the index for? The DXL 9.6 manual states it is for "position", but I don't know what that means.

The second question is, what is the string return value for? The DXL reference manual does not say. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here is the full quote from the DXL manual about this function:

"The second form activates the OLE object at position index in the column c, for the object o. "

Thanks

Since an object can have more than 1 OLE object the position just lets you select which OLE you want to activate.

I don't know for sure but the string return is most likely return null if it succeeds or an error if it fails. That is very common in DXL.