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Using Application Areas

The CA 2E application area feature lets you divide your model into groups of files. You can display, edit, or operate on these groups in isolation from the rest of your model. You can create many types of application areas. For example, you can create an application area for your accounts payable files.

Note: Application areas apply only to files.CA 2E model objects lists and associated panels and commands provide a method for grouping model objects that is independent of object type. You can access this facility using the Edit Model Object List (YEDTMDLLST) command.

You define application areas using a panel accessed from the Edit Database Relations panel. Once you define an application area, you can use it to control the type of information that displays on CA 2E interactive panels or prints when you invoke documentation commands.

Each application area must have a valid name and a three-character code. The name and code must be unique within the model. For example, you can represent orders by ORD.

Each application area can contain one or more files. A file can be in more than one application area.