Modifying Process Logic in a Dialog › Updating Modified Process Modules In Dialogs Using ADSC › Step 1: Retrieve and Check Out the Dialog

Step 1: Retrieve and Check Out the Dialog

In order to retrieve a dialog definition, you must be using ADSC.

If you did not transfer directly to ADSC earlier in this chapter when you exited from IDD, you need to invoke ADSC by using the task code (for example, ADSCT) for ADSC. For more information on invoking ADSC, see Step 1: Invoke ADSC.

ADSC begins by displaying the Main Menu screen. You use the Main Menu screen to retrieve a dialog definition for update.

Retrieving the Dialog

For example, you can retrieve dialog XXXDADD:

    Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
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    Dialog name . . . . . . .   xxxdadd
    Dialog version  . . . . .   1
    Dictionary name . . . . .   demo
    Dictionary node . . . . .   ________

    Screen  . . . . . . . . .   1  1. General options
                                   2. Assign maps
                                   3. Assign database
                                   4. Assign records and tables
                                   5. Assign process modules

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 Command ===>
 Enter  F1=Help  F3=Exit  F10=Action

Checking Out an Application

To check the application out for modification, position the cursor on the Modify item on the action bar and press [Enter]. You can position the cursor on Modify by:

• Pressing [PF10] to move to the action bar and then tabbing to Modify and pressing [Enter]
• Tabbing to Modify and pressing [Enter]
• Typing modify on the command line and pressing [Enter]

    Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
 ._____________________________________________________________________________.
      │                       │
      │  1  1. Checkout       │ Online Dialog Compiler
      │     2. Release        │
      │     3. List Checkouts │ssociates International, Inc.
      │-----------------------│
      │ F3=Exit               │
      │_______________________│
    Dialog name . . . . . . .   XXXDADD
    Dialog version  . . . . .      1
    Dictionary name . . . . .   DEMO
    Dictionary node . . . . .   ________

    Screen  . . . . . . . . .   1  1. General options
                                   2. Assign maps
                                   3. Assign database
                                   4. Assign records and tables
                                   5. Assign process modules



 Command ===>
 Enter  F1=Help  F3=Exit  F10=Action

Press [Enter] to check the dialog out.

Note: If the dialog has been checked out to another developer and has not been either compiled or released by that developer, you will not be able to check it out. The other developer must release the dialog.

After you press [Enter] to retrieve the dialog, ADSC displays basic information about dialog XXXDADD on the Main Menu screen along with the following message:

NO ERRORS DETECTED

For more information on retrieving dialogs, see “Step 1: Retrieve Dialog XXXDADD”.

After you successfully check out XXXDADD, you can update the modified process module in the dialog.