2.4 Creating Named Groups

A group is simply a collection of one or more DDS records. The records in a group generally combine to form either a screen (DSPF) or a report (PRTF). For each group, there is one Design page.

Follow these steps:

  1. From the left-hand side of the CODE Designer window, expand the list to see a list of records in the DDS Tree.
  2. Then on the right-hand side of the window, select the Details tab.
  3. From the Details page, select the subfile record CUSTLIST.
  4. Right-click on the record and select Design from the pop-up menu.
  5. The Design page appears displaying the subfile and the subfile control record. This group of records is called UNTITLED and the name of the currently active record appears in the drop-down list located on the top row.
  6. From the drop-down list, switch to the subfile control record by selecting LISTCTL.
  7. To change the name of the group, right click on the right-hand pane and select Properties > Group to bring up the Group properties notebook.
  8. Enter the name SELCUST in the Group field.
  9. To add a record to the group, select CUSTFOOT in the Available list, then click >>. Close the Properties notebook. Close the CODE Designer (Select File > Exit). Click YES to save the DDS changes.
  10. Click on to indicate that you've done all the steps.

This completes Exercise 2. You have been introduced to the CODE Designer and are familiar with some of its features such as constants, fields and groups. You should now have some screens for the Customer Inquiry application.

Now you are ready to launch the CODE Editor from CPO to learn about some editor features such as prompts and format lines to create the ILE RPG/400 source for the Customer Inquiry application.

But before you do, we recommend you do the Quiz.