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Using the OPTION and ACTION Fields

Every menu and submenu screen in the CA Endevor/DB system has an Option field on the first detail (non-header) line, which displays initially as blanks. Every List and Detail screen has an ACTION field, which displays initially as a literal describing the type of processing requested from the previous submenu screen (generally ADD, MODIFY, DELETE, or BROWSE). These fields can be used at any time and from any screen, to jump to another subfunction menu or to exit the system, as follows:

• To jump to another submenu, fill in an option/action value of =n and press Enter, where "n" is the number of the option used to request the submenu from the Main Functions Menu (4 for the Entity Functions submenu, 5 for the CCID Functions submenu, and so forth).
• To exit from the CA Endevor/DB system (and return to CA IDMS/DC), fill in an option/action value of =12 or =x and press Enter.

For Detail screens, you can also use the ACTION field to skip processing for the current screen and continue on with the next screen. For example, you might do this when you have selected multiple items from a previous List screen for detailed processing, and the Detail screen for one of the selected items is displayed. To skip processing for that item and continue with the next item selected, you would clear the ACTION field and press Enter.