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Use

You use the administration screen in combination with the design window to specify the output areas (windows), define the pages, and position the windows on the respective pages.

After opening a form ( Create/Change), you can specify the Administration Data in the header data and set the Basic Settings of the form. You can also go to the layout by choosing Layout in the application toolbar. In addition to this administration screen with its page and window data and several editing and display functions, this calls a design window where you can graphically design the page layout. The system always synchronizes these two windows whenever you execute an action on one of them.

You can choose the increments of the grid in various units of measure by choosing the Options pushbutton or choosing Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Options End of the navigation path. In addition, you can zoom to change the overall view of the design window.

On the administration screen, you edit the different pages and the respective windows in two structured areas. There, the system offers the most important menu functions on pushbuttons.

The Page Area

The Window Area

Pushbuttons

Pushbuttons

  • Display/Change

    Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Form Next navigation step Display Next navigation step Change End of the navigation path.

  • Check Definition

    Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Form Next navigation step Check Next navigation step Definition End of the navigation path. With this function, you can check whether all definitions required in the form exist (default paragraph, page format, and so on).

  • Check Texts

    Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Form Next navigation step Check Next navigation step Texts End of the navigation path. Use this function to check the individual window texts (text elements). The system checks whether the control commands used are syntactically correct and correctly nested. It also checks whether the paragraph and character formats used are known in the form. This pushbutton is available only within the Layout.

  • Activation

    The form must be activated in order for it to be addressed by the print program. Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Form Next navigation step Activate End of the navigation path.

  • Header Data

    Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Header Data End of the navigation path. Use this function to branch to the form header data.

  • Documentation

    Corresponds to Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Documentation End of the navigation path. Use this function to branch to the documentation of the windows and text elements used in the form.