A prompt is a label for either a field or a special field. It appears on the screen near the field itself.
In the following example, Customer Name and Hair Color are labels, or prompts, for the fields with which they are associated.
Customer Hair Color Inquiry
Customer Name = John Doe________
Hair Color = Brown___________
CA Gen keeps a list of each prompt used with fields to implement each attribute across the system, and lets you choose among them. This improves the opportunity to standardize field labels across the system. You can use literals to create the same effect as prompts. This chapter will take up the topic of literals.
For example, in the example Field Prompts, assume the field preceded by the prompt Customer Name: implements an attribute called Customer Name.
Suppose another designer builds a screen that requires a field implementing Customer Name. When the designer is positioning the field, CA Gen will issue a reminder that Customer Name was previously used as a prompt for the attribute and will encourage the designer to use it again rather than inventing a new one such as Name of Cust Is or Client Name Is ===>>.
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