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Using VAL and LST Conditions

VAL conditions on status fields describe a single condition for that field, such as Open or Invoiced. It is often desirable to describe a set of these conditions and address them as a single condition. For example, Open, Picked and Shipped conditions might constitute the condition Active. To do this, CA 2E provides the ability for a set of VAL conditions to be grouped under a single LST condition.

By default, all VAL conditions are included in the special LST condition *ALL values. You may create other LST conditions from any combination of VAL conditions.

LST conditions also permit the same VAL to be relabeled as a different condition. In this case, the LST has only one entry, that of the VAL. This is particularly useful with subfile selectors and function keys where a single VAL (such as "A" or "F8") may define different conditions on different panels.

To accomplish this you may consider changing all your VALs on the Subfile selector field SFLSEL to condition such as:

and to then use a single entry list to define the actual condition. For example: