Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 7.10: Accessing field properties.
CODE Designer helps you manage the visual aspects of your displays and reports. But you also need to access the full power of DDS. You need to access keywords.
To add keywords:
You see the Details page for the EMPAPL field and the Create
keywords tab is added to the Utilities notebook. This page shows
you the subset of keywords that are allowed for the selected file, record or
field and it takes into account the field's type, usage, shift and what
record it is in. It is very powerful to know exactly what your options
are. This information cannot be quickly ascertained from the Reference
manual.
Notice that the list of keywords in the Create keywords page has changed.
Notice that the list of keywords in the Create keywords page has changed again.
The DDS Reference help for the ALIAS keyword appears.
Tip: CODE Designer has lots of on-line help. Press
F1 anywhere you want to see help for an item, icon or notebook. You
will see help relevant to what you are currently trying to do. From the
Help menu you have quick access to the DDS Language Reference as well as
several other useful sources of information.
The keyword is created with default values which can be changed when you want.
The keyword is created with the same default values creating a
conflict.
You have added the keyword ALIAS and seen the help on this keyword and you are ready to begin Exercise 7.12: Verifying the source changes.
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