We use those DDS keywords for all of our help. Something like this in the header;
A DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3)
A HELP
A ALTHELP(CA01)
A HLPTITLE('Patient Add/Change')
A HLPSCHIDX(DRLIBR/MPMSINDEX)
A PRINT
And then in individual records:
A H HLPPNLGRP(PATMST1 DE001HLP)
A HLPARA(*NONE)
A H HLPPNLGRP(PTNO DE001HLP)
A HLPARA(*FLD @PTNO)
Pressing F1 over the @PTNO field brings up specific help for that field. Pressing F1 while not over a field that has defined help brings up the PATMST1 general help.
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: UIM Menu Source
I've mostly used UIM only for help text for commands - that's a really simple process, generally.
UIM help panels are also easily used in UIM display panels.
I do see that there is a HLPPNLGRP keyword for DDS - I've never used it, I'd hope that it, along with some of the other several HLP* keywords, would make it unnecessary to use APIs - unless one wants some specialized behavior. I vaguely remember using some APIs when writing a display panel group - like maybe generating the list contents when the content is varying from call to call.
Good stuff - I always wished there were a UDA function - any votes for an RFE to add that in RDi? :)
Cheers
Vern
On 11/19/2018 4:34 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/19/2018
05:20:13 PM:
It might need APIs for some stuff, for help screens, not hardly at
all, usually.
Whether you need APIs for UIM help screens, or not, depends
upon if they are referenced directly from commands, menus, or display
files or you need to get fancy and reference then directly from your
user-written programs. I am of the understanding that if you want to
provide context-sensitive help for your own DDS-based display files
then you have to use API's from the program behind the display file.
Otherwise, UIM menus and list panels provide support for
context-sensitive help panels without requiring the use of APIs at all.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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