accessing DXL Layout columns using DXL script

 I have been very successful in witting scripts to perform metrics on many files in our project.   However I have not found a way to access LayoutDXL columns.   If I try to access as I do for attributes, I get syntax error.  I tried accessing both directly as

string LayoutColumnString

LayoutColumnString= obJ."Layout Column Name"

and putting in a filter such as

f =contains(attribute "Layout Column Name", "TBD", true)

 I assumed this subject would be covered in this forum but could not find the right keywords to pull it up.

Thank you

Re: accessing DXL Layout columns using DXL script
Rolan - Tue Feb 14 11:58:34 EST 2017

You'll have to access the view column and extract the text using :

string text(Column c, Object o)

See the Display Control -> Columns section in the DXL reference manual.