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 3-5: Job Processes

Job Process Specifications


Job process specifications establish the general attributes of an job process, including the 'In Progress' message. The Job Processes screen, displayed when you select job from the Process Management overlay, is shown below.

Job Processes Screen

The Job Processes screen contains the following fields:

Process Name identifies a specific process and must be unique within type and application.

In Progress Message field provides text for the message that displays on the screen while the job process executes in the foreground.

Opts are indicators that are present whenever documentation (T), rules (R), or additional attributes (AA) have been defined for this process.

Buttons are provided at the bottom of each Menu Processes screen for accessing the following options:

Additional Attributes - Same as the Process Additional Attributes Option.

Rules - See the Job Process Rules Option for details.

Goto... - Allows you to identify and retrieve another record by optionally entering a full or partial key.

Steps - Shows the list of processing steps defined in this Job.

Documentation - Same as the Process Documentation Option.

Security - Same as the Process Security Option.

Help - Allows you to view online help text for a selected item.

Close or Cancel - In Inquire mode, Close allows you to end the current process. Otherwise, cancel allows you to end the current process without saving changes, if any, to the current record.

In addition, the menu bar provides the following pulldown menus:

Toolbox - Same as the Process Toolbox Pulldown Menu.

Jump to - Same as the Process Jump to Pulldown Menu.

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