Setting up the ENS Components › Using the DECwindows Interface to the Configuration Editor › Add Actions

Add Actions

See the chapter Understanding ENS for information about actions.

To add an action

1. Start the configuration editor as shown in the chapter Modifying the Configuration Database.
2. Pull down the Edit menu and choose the Edit, Action/Create submenu. This displays the Action Name dialog box.
3. Click the space provided for the name of the action and enter a name. For example, your action name.
4. Click OK. This displays the Action dialog box as shown in the following figure.

   

5. Complete the fields in the dialog box as follows, using the table in section Action Attributes, in the chapter Understanding ENS to help you.
   1. Enter a description of what the action does in Information. For example, your description.
   2. Enter the name of the command procedure or image in Command. For example, your_action.com

      Note: On OpenVMS, you must include the appropriate file extension on the corresponding action routine, for example YOUR_ACTION.COM for a command file.

      Click the required checkbox in Action Type to determine how the action will be executed, and the way in which ENS will communicate events to it. For example, one dispatch for each event and each userdata item.

   3. Click the required checkboxes in the Parameters to Pass to Action box. Use the tables in the section, Invoking Actions in the chapter Understanding ENS to help you. For example, if your action is a command procedure and you wish to pass to your action event name and text, click Event Name followed by Text.
   4. When you have finished, click OK.
6. Continue to add other actions, if you wish.