Automatic Editing and Error Handling › Enabling Automatic Editing and Error Handling › Field-level Editing

Field-level Editing

• Specifying any of the following on the Field Definition screen enables automatic editing for a field:
  • / for the Automatically edited prompt (Online compiler only)
  • An external picture
  • An edit table
  • A code table
• Naming a user-written edit module enables or disables automatic editing:
  • Editing is enabled if the edit module is to be performed either before or after automatic editing.
  • Editing is disabled if the edit module is to be performed instead of automatic editing.

Automatic editing is enabled or disabled according to the most recent automatic editing or user-written error module specification. The General Options, Additional Edit Criteria, and Map Read/Write Options screens in the online compiler and the MFLD statement of the batch compiler are used to make these specifications and to enable automatic editing for a field.