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Areas of a Pageable Map

A pageable map is divided into three areas.

Header Area

The header area (optional) is located across the top of the screen and contains one or more rows of map fields associated with header information. The header area information is displayed whenever the map is displayed.

Detail Area

The detail area (required) is located across the middle of the screen and contains the detail occurrences. Detail occurrence map fields are defined in the detail area only once. At run time, the number of detail occurrences that are displayed in the detail area depends on the space available on the screen after accounting for the header and footer information.

Footer Area

The footer area (optional) is located across the bottom of the screen and contains one or more rows of map fields associated with footer information. The footer information is displayed whenever the map is displayed.

For example, a pageable map used to display a department record and all associated employee records might contain the following information:

• Header area— The title of the map and department information
• Footer area— A message field, the map page, and information about how to page through the map
• Detail area— Detail occurrences of employee information

 ┌─
 │
 │  DEPT. ID: _____
 │
 └─

 ┌─
 │  EMP. ID: _____   LAST NAME: _______________             ACTION CODE: ___
 │
 │                   START DATE: ________                   MESSAGE: ________
 │
 │
 │
 └─

 ┌─
 │  PAGE: _____
 │
 │
 │  ____________________________________________________________________________
 └─