RE: Fwd: Re: Maintaining "Notes" in an application

I believe that I understand.  Instead of a notes file like BPCS' ECN file 
(which has four keys:
note type,
customer or order number,
ship to number or order line number,
note number),
with a single fixed length for each line of notes you have one varying 
length field.  And html handles this quite nicely with the text keyword. 
No, I don't believe that 5250 has anything this flexible.  Be prepared to 
replace 1 line of code with a hundred or more.  Or rethink why you need 
access to this field with a 5250 application.  (Been there, have the 
scars.)

Rob Berendt
-- 
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>If I understand properly, the idea here is to set the text 
>box size the same width as the record length and let the 
>users manage it.

Nope, Sorry for the confusion. The idea is that for a "note" you provide 
the
user with a single textbox. If they are viewing the note from the browser
then the note looks fine, however if they are viewing it from the green
screen then the note is broken into multiple lines of 75 bytes (or 
whatever
fits on your screen) and words may wrap. 

Make sense?

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jedrzejewicz @ San Pedro [mailto:TJedrzejewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:57 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Fwd: Re: Maintaining "Notes" in an application


Greetings, and thanks so far . .  This message is a compilation response 
to
several posts.

I was actually hoping that someone would tell me that CGIDEV2 or Cozzi's
tools or Brad's tools have some functions to do the word wrap/parsing for
me!


"Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL=2B5fPzThJ4VnIoaKPxTklg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message
news:<036AA74C3CCBD243BB9D2754AC6F939914FDB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.net>...
> I'd go with the textbox approach. We've done it in several different 
cases
> and in each we've been able to make the decision that the green-screen
notes
> were "Secondary" to the browser based ones and as such we've avoided the
> need to word-wrap. We figure that the humans are smart enough to word 
wrap
> on their own. However, word wrapping isn't all that hard.
> 

If I understand properly, the idea here is to set the text box size the 
same
width as the record length and let the users manage it.  This may actually
be the first cut solution. 

"Rick Rauterkus" <ricker=dEhpIGnVy/33oGB3hsPCZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:<1711576556.20030521075006@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>...

            <<snip>>
> 
> Is this what you are looking for:
> 
> DDS Reference: Display Files
> 
> BLKFOLD (Blank Fold) keyword for display files
> 
> Use this field-level keyword for named, output-only fields (but not
> message or program-to-system fields) that are defined so that they
> overflow onto subsequent display lines. The keyword causes folding to
> occur at a blank in the data rather than at the end of the display
> line. It is used to make long text fields easier to read. The default
> is for the data to be folded at the end of the physical line.
> 

I am trying to avoid modifying the database or the existing green screen
application.  This is a great idea for any new files/applications however.
It appears that it makes a green screen output field appear like a text 
box.


>>> <Mike_Shumaker/SCI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/20/03 12:11PM >>>

> (a) Link your green screen application to an internet view and then
> everybody is looking/maintaining it with a web look and feel.  Kind of
> inconsistent, but it works.

> (b) Use WRDWRAP and CNTFLD instead of subfile processing.  There are 
some
> limitations with this method, but it works good if your "notes" can all
fit
> on one screen.

Same comments as to Rick - I am trying to avoid changing the existing
program and the database.

Thanks again to all.


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