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How You Use the Prototyping Tool

While you are reviewing the screens using the PT tool, you can interactively change screen definitions and the order in which screens are presented and review the results immediately. For example, if a user is reviewing the screens with you and suggests that one screen precede another, you can make that change by chaining to the source tool, making the modification, and then accessing Prototyping with the updated screen order. This ensures that you and the user agree on the change.

The objective of this tool is to further refine the screen definition. Therefore, when you build action diagrams for procedure steps, you will be working with stable information which has had the prior approval of the user and management.

You cannot enter data, interpret data, transfer data between screens, or simulate the look of data on the screen in the PT tool. These tasks are done in the CA Gen test facility. However, the edit pattern displays with each data field. The cursor position does not change to indicate which fields are protected and which will allow data entry. Also, error messages do not display when using this tool.