Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 7.9: Adding field error handling.
Second to the direct manipulation and the toolbar on the Design page, the easiest and quickest ways of getting access to the properties of a field, record, or entire file is the Properties notebook.
The Properties notebook lets you view and update the properties of the currently selected DDS object. You can open this notebook from any view, pop-up menu, or menu of the CODE Designer.
The Properties notebook is modeless. When you change an object's properties, the selected object changes immediately.
You can get to a Properties notebook from the Selected menu, by pressing F4, or double-click on anything in the DDS tree or the Details page or Design page.
To open the Properties notebook:
As you select different items, the Properties notebook will continuously update itself to show you the properties of the selected item.
Notice how the sample is updated on the Properties notebook.
On this page you can change the field's name, usage, length, type, and
screen position. The other pages give you quick access to other
properties of this field.
You have seen the record properties for the record SELECT and changed the length of year to 4 digits and you are ready to begin Exercise 7.11: Adding new keywords.
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