The context is part of the environment of a recordset. It is used to pass information such as the time zone and the language of the user from the user interface, as well as the contextual parameters specified in the actions. A number of methods in the standard add-ons use the context to adapt their behavior to these values. It is sometimes necessary to modify the context on a recordset to get the desired results from a method call or the desired value for a computed field.

This recipe will show how to get different output from the same method with the help of the context.