Using the Edit Facility › CA 7 Text Editor Environment › Creating Text

Creating Text

Another common editing activity is to create text from scratch. The following example is a step-by-step example for this activity using the CA 7 text editor. In the example, the primary panel is the DB.4 panel, but the same steps apply to other panels, such as DB.7 and QM.5.

See the figure at the beginning of this section.

To create text, proceed as follows:

1. Display the primary panel, in this case, DB.4.
2. Since this panel is a menu panel, a secondary entry is required, such as 1 for job level documentation.
3. Once on the DB.4.1 panel, enter CLEAR in the function field to initialize the active area. (If the active size is 0, this step can be bypassed.)
4. Next enter EDIT in the function field to transfer to the editor. The edit panel that is returned indicates EWF EMPTY.
5. Enter I or INSERT that invokes Data Insert processing.
6. Enter text as wanted. Lines are double spaced with sequence numbers protected. If text is entered on all displayed numbered lines, another panel of blank lines is presented for continued entry. After all input is complete, leave at least one blank line on the panel and press Enter to return to FEM.
7. If any changes are needed to the newly created text, use the editor subcommands to manipulate the data.
8. Enter the SAVE subcommand to retain the text and return to the DB.4.1 panel.
9. Type SAVE in the function field and the job name in the JOB field. Data can be entered in the other fields too. Press Enter to add the text to the database.

   Note: If you are entering no data in the other fields, use SS in Step 8. SS performs steps 8 and 9 with one command.