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Default Panels

CA 2E automatically creates a default interactive panel design for each interactive device function. You can modify the default designs to meet the requirements of your application.

A device design specifies:

• The selection of fields present on a device panel and the accompanying text for each field
• The display of both fields and text may be conditional
• The order in which the fields are displayed on the device panel and how they are edited
• The display attributes for the fields
• The use of each field

These are the defaults from the design model; however, you may override most of them.

You can view the default device design from the Edit Function Details panel by pressing F9 as shown in the following example:

EDIT FUNCTION DETAILS                         My model                          

 Function name . . : Edit Horse                  Type : Edit file               

 Received by file. : Horse                       Acpth: Retrieval index         

 Workstation . . . : NPT                                                      

 Source library. . : MYGEN                                                 

 Object    Source      Target                                                   

 ? Type    Name        HLL    Text                                              

    PGM    MYAEEFR     RPG    Edit Horse                Edit file               

    DSP    MYAEEFRD    DDS    Edit Horse                Edit file               

    HLP    MYAEEFRH    UIM    Edit Horse                Edit file               

 SEL: E-STRSEU, O-Compiler Overrides, T-ILE Compilation Type (*PGM/*MODULE)   

 F3=Exit        F5=Action diagram       F7=Options       F8=Change name         

 F9=Device design    F17=HTML skeleton    F20=Narrative

The default panel design for the Edit Horse function displays as shown in the following example:

If you want to change the position of a field on the device design, position the cursor on the chosen field and press the F9 function key. For example, to begin the second line with Dam Horse code, you just place the cursor on this field and press F9.

The subfile record format splits into two lines and the device design is updated to reflect the change.

Position the cursor as shown in the following example:

Press F9. The subfile record format now displays only two HORSE records as shown in the following example:

You can repeat the process to move the fields relevant to the Sire to a separate line from those for the Dam by placing the cursor on the Sire Horse code and pressing F9.

For more details on modifying the device design, see the Tutorial.