| before method |
Method that is executed before the task's method, synchronously and on the same screen, during execution of a dialog or background work item.
The method can be any object method in the Business Object Repository. It does not have to refer to the same object as the task's method and it cannot create the object.
If the work item is executed several times, (say, for example, the terminating event has not yet occurred), the before method is also executed several times.