Re: DDS Designer Window subfile

Having used CODE Designer for the past 14 years, I have no problem with defining a screen.  Having done that, though, it wasn't intuitive to me that I had to perform another action to see all the records included in that screen.  Now that I know it's there, it's just one more click that has to be made, although why anyone would want that defaulted to off doesn't make much sense to me - I mean, the purpose of defining a screen is to see and design all the records together, isn't it?  Not a problem since it works the way I want now that I know to make that extra click.
 
Dave Shaw


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From: Edmund Reinhardt <edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] DDS Designer Window subfile



Vern has the right idea, just click on the 'Draw records transparent'
toolbar icon above the design area.
You could argue that for subfiles this should always be on, but it is a
user preference and it ends up showing all records in the DSPF which is not
what you always want.
Screen Designer forced you to work with "Screens", DDS Designer allows you
to work with single records, since people were struggling with the screen
idea.
Creating a screen and checking off 'Draw records transparent' will do the
job for you.