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Returning to a Screen from Which You Transferred

Sometimes you may want to return to a detail information screen that you left by a jump. For instance, you might want to go back to check a version number on the previous screen. But PF3 would take you up a level to a second level menu for the current entity.

The situation is illustrated above. After finding the name of the record on the Dialog/Record cross-reference screen, the user entered REC.BAS and the name, leaving the version number displays. unchanged. The Record/Basic Information screen appeared with a message. The user wanted to return to the Dialog/Record cross-reference screen to check the spelling of the record name and check the version number, because the system displayed the message:

NAME AND/OR VERSION NOT FOUND

Like the user described above, you may want to return to a previous screen. Whether you are still at the detail level, or you have pressed PF3 and you are at the menu level, you can transfer directly to the previous detail screen to verify the name and the version number. To access the previous screen, transfer directly by typing:

Press Enter.

                     ┌─────────────────┐                    ┌─────────────────┐
                     │     DIALOG      │                    │     RECORD      │
                     │      MENU       │                    │      MENU       │
                     │                 │                    │                 │
                     │                 │                    │                 │
                     └────────┬────────┘                    └─────────────────┘
                              │ OPTION=>DIA.REC                      ▲
                              │                                      │ PF3
                              ▼                                      │
                     ┌─────────────────┐                    ┌────────┴────────┐
                     │    DIALOG/      │                    │     RECORD/     │
                     │    RECORD       ├───────────────────►│   BASIC INFO    │
                     │    Record1      │ OPTION=>REC.BAS    │Name and/or ver- │
                     │    VER 100      │ NAME=>Record1      │ sion not found  │
                     └─────────────────┘ VERSION=>1         └─────────────────┘


                                                  ▲
                                                  │
                                                  │
                                   ┌──────────────┴─────────────┐
                                   │ Did not enter new version  │
                                   │ number, so version default-│
                                   │ ed to the dialog version   │
                                   │ number.                    │
                                   └────────────────────────────┘
───────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────
To return to Dialog/Record from either Record/Basic Information or Record Menu, transfer directly.
                                                            ┌─────────────────┐
                                                            │     RECORD      │
                              ┌─────────────────────────────┤      MENU       │
                              │ OPTION=>DIA.REC             │                 │
                              │ NAME=>Dialog1               │                 │
                              │ VERSION=>1                  └─────────────────┘
                              │
                              │
                              ▼
                     ┌─────────────────┐                    ┌─────────────────┐
                     │    DIALOG/      │                    │     RECORD/     │
                     │    RECORD       │ ◄──────────────────┤   BASIC INFO    │
                     │    Record1      │ OPTION=>DIA.REC    │                 │
                     │    VER 100      │ NAME=>Dialog1      │                 │
                     └─────────────────┘ VERSION=>1         └─────────────────┘


                              ▲
                              │
               ┌──────────────┴──────────┐
               │ Check name and version. │
               │                         │
               └─────────────────────────┘

Exhibit 3.14: Returning to a Previous Display