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Design Components in Screens and Templates

Screens contain the following design components:

• field
• literal
• prompt
• special field
• template

Templates contain the following design components:

• literal
• prompt
• special field

Fields are specific to a particular procedure step, since they are mapped to the attribute view of a procedure step. Since templates can be shared by many screens (and therefore, many procedure steps), templates do not support fields.