To display the contents of this section, you must click the Add Category button or select a category line in the tree. In this section, you must specify its type, position, presentation and repetitions.
A category is a group of consecutive Data Elements, Screen calls and/or labels in the list defining the Screen. These elements can be positioned in any manner, corresponding to the overall logic of processing.
Each category can be defined only once in a given screen.
The presentation of the Screen is defined by the distribution of the Data Elements within the different categories
The distribution also gives the processing order of the Data Elements in the generated program (Screen-top Data Elements; the Data Elements from the repetitive section, as many times as they are repeated; and the Screen-bottom Data Elements).
If the line and column numbers are both equal to zero, the Data Element is automatically positioned on the next tabulation point available.
Any line length overflow and field overlapping are automatically detected. However, the presence of a space in front of each field is not verified.
If the line and column numbers are both equal to zero, the Data Element is automatically positioned on the next tabulation point available.
The values for the label type correspond to the association between the Data Element and the presentation characteristics for these labels (left-justified...).
Values | Comments |
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Default value | Defaults to the value specified in the Dialog. |
F: Data Element only | |
L: Data Element with long label, left-justified | The Data Element is preceded by the Data Element label, left-justified, on 36 positions. |
M: Data Element with long label, right-justified | The Data Element is preceded by the Data Element label, right-justified, on 36 positions. |
N: Data Element with long label, left-justified, trimmed right | The Data Element is preceded by the Data Element label, left-justified with suppression of blanks on the right. |
R: Data Element with long relational label, left-justified | The Data Element is preceded by the relational label, left-justified on 18 positions. |
S: Data Element with short label, left-justified | The Data Element is preceded by the short label, left-justified, on 18 position |
T: Data Element with short label, right-justified | The Data Element is preceded by the short label, right-justified, on 18 position |
U: Data Element with short label, left-justified, trimmed right | The Data Element is preceded by the short label, left-justified, with suppression of blanks on the right. |
1: Data Element topped by a single line column label | |
2: Data Element topped by 2–line column label | |
3: Data Element topped by 3–line column label |