5.3.3 APPX Application Design Manual

+ Chapter 1-1: Overview of Application Design
+ Chapter 1-2: Getting Started
+ Chapter 1-3: Data Dictionary
+ Chapter 1-4: Understanding Process Design
+ Chapter 1-5: Interprocess Communication
+ Chapter 1-6: Customizing Your Application
+ Chapter 1-7: The Documentation Facility
+ Chapter 1-8: Application Design Tools
+ Chapter 2-1: Data Dictionary Overview
+ Chapter 2-2: Data Dictionary Concepts
+ Chapter 2-3: Domains
+ Chapter 2-4: Files and Fields
- Chapter 2-5: Work Fields
+ Chapter 3-1: Overview of APPX Processes
+ Chapter 3-2: Getting Started
+ Chapter 3-3: Process Definition
+ Chapter 3-4: Menu Processes
+ Chapter 3-5: Job Processes
+ Chapter 3-6: Input Processes
+ Chapter 3-7: Output Processes
+ Chapter 3-8: Update Processes
+ Chapter 3-9: Query Processes
+ Chapter 3-10: Inquiry Processes
+ Chapter 3-11: Status Processes
+ Chapter 3-12: Subroutine Processes
+ Chapter 3-13: Table Processes
+ Chapter 3-14: Automatic and Optional Children
+ Chapter 3-15: Using the Image Editor
+ Chapter 3-16: Using GUI Features of the Image Editor
+ Chapter 3-17: Using Event Points
+ Chapter 4-1: ILF Integration
+ Chapter 4-2: True/False Status Indicators
+ Chapter 4-3: Specifying Statements
+ Chapter 4-4: The ILF Editor
+ Chapter 4-5: The Appx ILF Debugger
+ Chapter 4-6: ILF Keyword Reference
+ Chapter 4-7: Predefined Fields
+ Chapter 4-8: Runtime Subroutine's and Predefined Processes
+ Chapter 4-9: Appx Chart Director API

Chapter 2-5: Work Fields

Domain Work Fields


A domain-type work field assumes the attributes that are defined for any type of domain in the same or an outside application. To use an assumed value from a domain definition, leave the specification blank. The Domain-Type Work field Specifications overlays, such as the one shown below, automatically display after you complete the entries on the Work fields specifications screen if the Field Type youselect is DOMAIN.

Domain Work Field Specification Overlay (Alpha Domain)

The following fields are contained on the Domain Type Work field Specifications overlay for Alpha, Format, Text, Token, Date, and Logic Domain-Type Work fields:

Domain Name links a domain-type work field to a specific domain in the same or another APPX application.

Descriptive provides a longer, more easily understood alternative to Field Name, one that is not required to be unique within an application. If blank at all default levels, Field Name is used. Because Descriptive is less cryptic and can be more flexibly formatted than Field Name, it is easier to under-stand. As a result, the system uses Descriptive when communicating with users. Descriptive is used, for example, when the value of a field displays to a user on a standard image, such as the Select Access Path display or an APPX-generated subheading. We suggest that you use a singular entry for Descriptive, and avoid appending the word 'field'.

Column Hdgs designates up to two lines of column heading text. The APPX output process facility uses this text to generate standard column heading images for Start of Page and Start of Range class frames. For cosmetic reasons, the length of headings should not exceed the length of a field itself. Refer to Standard Column Heading Image for additional information.

The Domain Type Work field Specification overlays for Alpha, Format, Text, Token, Date, and Logic Domains contain the option Additional Attributes described in the next section.

The Domain Work field overlay offers one option described in the following section: Additional Attributes.

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