Defining the Screen elements and layout
The elements that constitute a Screen can be Data Elements, labels, or Screens. To insert them, and to specific their display characteristics in the Screen layout, you must open the -CE Lines tab of a Screen.
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Procedure
- Open the-CE Lines tab of a Screen.
- If necessary, add a category in the table. When it is created, a Screen contains the top category only. The top category line is not displayed in the tree by default but if you do not specify any other category, all the Screen elements are inserted in this category. To add a repetitive or a bottom category, click Add a category (or select this action in the contextual menu) and complete the fields of the Category definition section that opens.
- Place your cursor in the adequate category in the tree, on the line after which you want to insert a new element.
- You can then add one of the following elements:
- A Data Element. To do so, click Add Data Element . The selection wizard
opens.
This wizard displays the three Data Element formats in the following order: internal format, input format, and output format.
You can select contiguous instances in the selection wizard. To select noncontiguous instances, check Multi-selection. Select each instance, with the help of the filtering pattern if necessary. Then, click Add to selection list. You can also double-click each instance to add it to the list. To remove an instance from the selection list, select the instance in the selection list and click Remove from selection list before you close the selection wizard.
Select one or more Data Elements and click OK. Enter the fields of the Field definition section. When a field is inserted, you can add controls to it (such as presence check, validation conditions, update option). To do so, select a field (a Data Element) in the tree and click Add additional controls for the field. Then, enter the information in the Additional controls for the field section that opens.
- A label. To do so, click Add Label and complete the fields of the Label definition section that opens up.
- A Screen call. To do so, click Add Screen element, select a Screen in the selection wizard that opens and enter the information in the Screen call definition section.
Note: The possible actions with the buttons are also available in the contextual menu of the table. - A Data Element. To do so, click Add Data Element . The selection wizard
opens.
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