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Statements for Manual Panel Definition

The developer explicitly defines panel, panel field, map, and map field occurrences when using compiler statements that manually define panels. The compiler action verbs ADD, MODIFY, and DELETE define the overall purpose of the mapping statements.

Note: For information about the ADD, MODIFY, and DELETE verbs, see "Compiler Action Verbs".

Statements You can use

• The PANEL statement defines and generates a panel occurrence.
• The PFLD statement defines and generates a panel field occurrence.
• The MAP statement defines and generates a map occurrence that is associated with a specific panel occurrence.
• The MFLD statement defines and generates a map field occurrence. The map field occurrence is associated with a specific panel field occurrence from the panel occurrence named by the owner MAP statement.

Conditions

A PANEL statement must be followed immediately by the PFLD statements that define its related fields. A panel occurrence defined by PANEL and PFLD statements must exist in the data dictionary before MAP and MFLD statements can be used to generate a map occurrence based on the panel record. A MAP statement must be followed immediately by the MFLD statements that define its related fields.

The PANEL, PFLD, MAP, and MFLD statements and their clauses are presented separately as follows: