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Building an Action Bar Prototype

The Action Bar option is automatically set to Y on the Work with Panel Title Details panel when you convert a CA 2E action bar device design.

Enter 6 to edit the action bar definition. The Toolkit Edit Choices panel displays.

YDSCABC  CHANGE                                              MM/DD/YY HH:MM:ss
                            Edit Choices                                      
                                                                              
Panel Name . . . . . :  UUAGEFR1                                              
  File . . . . . . . :  YDSNPNL                                               
  Library. . . . . . :  SYMDL                                                 
  Member . . . . . . :  YDSNPNL                                               
                                                                              
Choice Sequence .      (position)                                             
                                                                              
Type options, press Enter.                                                    
A=Actions  D=Delete                                                           
                                                                              
? Sequence Mnemonic Text                                                      
    1      E        File                                                      
    4      U        Function                                                  
   99      H        Help                                                      
                                                                              
                                                                              
F3=Exit  F4=Prompt  F9=Go to ‘Add’ mode  F12=Titles screen                    

The action bar menu choices that currently have actions defined display. Press F9 to add new choices. Enter A to edit the actions for an existing menu choice. The Toolkit Edit Actions panel displays.

YDSCABA   CHANGE                                              MM/DD/YY HH:MM:ss
                               Edit Actions                                    
                                                                               
Panel Name. . . . : UUAGEFR1                                                   
                                                                               
Choice Sequence . :   3                                                        
Choice Text . . . : Work with spool files                                      
                                                                               
Action Number .     (position)                                                 
                                                                               
Type options, press Enter.                                                     
C=Command String  D=Delete                                                     
                                                                               
?  Number  Text                     Next Panel                                 
    2      Open                     *SAME                                      
C   3      Work with spool files    *EXEC                                      
   90      Exit                     *EXIT                                      
                                                                               
                                                                               
F3=Exit  F4=Prompt  F9=Go to ‘Add’ mode                                        

The Next Panel column indicates the result of selecting the corresponding action. For example, Next Panel can contain:

• The name of the CA 2E panel to call when the action is selected.
• *EXIT, which means to exit the panel when the action is selected.
• *EXEC, which lets you execute a command when the action is selected. To edit the command string for *EXEC, enter C for the subfile selector; the following screen displays:

                                                                              
            +-----------------------------------------------------+           
            |                                                     |           
            |                 Edit Command String                 |           
            |                                                     |           
            | Panel name. . . . : UUAGEFR1                        |           
            |                                                     |           
            | Choice. . . . . . : File                            |           
            | Action. . . . . . : Work with spool files           |           
            |                                                     |           
            | Command string ...                                  |           
            | WRKSPLF                                             |           
            |                                                     |           
            | F3=Exit  F11=Delete                                 |           
            |                                                     |           
            +-----------------------------------------------------+           

Note: When defining command key navigation, assign *ABAR to the function key that is to activate the action bar. If you converted a action bar device design, the command key assigned to *ACTIONS is automatically assigned *ABAR for the Toolkit command key navigation.