RE: Variable Fields on the screen

Nordin,
Most of your canned packages do just this;
behind the scenes the fields are defined as say 15/2, and the
user can self define the field to say 6/2; the screens and
reports just do not allow/show the other digits, same goes
for alphanumeric fields; example is a 60 position character field,
user defines it as a 21 char fields, things just lop it off, and
the users can call it whatever they desire.

Works great for full canned packages, can be a pain to put in
just a few in your own in-house written code, and also takes
more time for those of us supporting and interfacing with the
packages - but it is a major selling point to the end-users.

HTH

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of dahmani
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 2:23 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Variable Fields on the screen


Hello everybody,

More and more customer are asking us to have instead of a green screen
with fixed fields and order, a "flexible" window where they could see
and work with only the fields they need ( which of course should be user

specific and determined before by them). Has someone experienced such a
way of programming on the e-series? Some idea ?

Thank you

Nordin



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