Window Maintenance

There are two types of maintenance you can perform on windows: basic maintenance and administrative maintenance. Basic maintenance can be done by anyone on the system. Administrative maintenance should be done by your system administrator due to its technical processing considerations.

Basic Maintenance

Basic maintenance can be performed by anyone on the system. These tasks require neither programming skills nor authority to recompile. Their impact, however, is immediately visible in MAC-PAC.

Note: If you change a window, everyone using that window will see your changes.

Basic maintenance includes creating a new window as well as manipulating existing windows. The tasks performed during this type of maintenance include:

· Adding, removing, and resequencing fields on a window

· Changing literals

· Adding new windows

The Basic Maintenance Procedures section gives detailed examples of how to perform these maintenance tasks.

Administrative Maintenance

Administrative maintenance should be performed by your system administrator due to the processing considerations that accompany it. Any procedure that falls under administrative maintenance requires program and/or master file changes. The tasks performed during this type of maintenance include:

· Adding or removing fields from a field set

· Adding new field sets

· Creating custom programs to be called from a window

Window Maintenance Setup

There are two basic steps to perform when creating a window; defining the window and selecting the fields to display in the window. Each of these tasks are considered basic maintenance tasks.

Defining the Window

There are two steps to perform when defining a window¾first, combine the field set with an action code; second, choose a window indicator. Figure 5 above shows the Sales Order Line field set (SOLINE) being combined with the Kenning action code (KN) on the select screen of Reference File category 032. Once the field set and action code are combined, press Enter to go to the detail screen. On the detail screen, you must enter a window indicator of WN to indicate that this action code will be used to invoke user-defined window rather than a predefined function. Predefined functions include custom programs and existing MAC-PAC programs.

WILLIAMS                       COMMON FEATURES                         5/23/94

 DSP01                    REFERENCE FILE CATEGORY 032                   INQUIRE

                                                                               

                   Category Name        Window Action Codes                    

                                                                               

                                        Field Set(8) Action Cd(2)              

                   Category Key         SOLINE  KN                             

                                                                               

                                                                               

            Window Ind               Window Title                              

       Data   WN                    Kenning Window                             

              XX         XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX              

                                                                               

            Start Pos.      Size     External Pgm.   Alternate Set             

       Data   0205           L                                                 

              NNNN           X        XXXXXXXXXX         XXXXXXXX              

                                                                               

               Prompt Description         Dsp 50 Char field                    

       Data Kenning Orr Fields                    Y                            

            XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX              Y                            

                                                                               

 F2=Command          F3=Exit             F9=Inquiry          F10=Function Select

Defining what will be Displayed in the Window.

Notice in the figure above that the window indicator entered was WN (the generic windows indicator). This indicator is the one you will choose for all basic maintenance tasks. After choosing a window indicator, you must enter other information about the window including the window title, starting row and column for the upper left hand corner of the window, the size of the window (large of small), the description for the window when prompted with F4=Prompt from the maintenance or inquiry conversation, and whether to display the 50-character field. Once these fields are entered, press Enter to process your request. If you choose a different window indicator, different fields are required.

Selecting the Fields to Display in the Window

Once your window is defined, you may select which fields you wish to appear and their sequence. You select these fields from the field set your window is defined for. The figure below shows the order of the fields that will display for that field set. Note that the figure only shows one page of the fields.

WILLIAMS                      COMMON FEATURES                           5/24/94

 DSP01                        WINDOW DEFINITION                           DETAIL

                                                                               

 Field Set     SOLINE    Sales Order Line Maintenance                          

 Action Code   KN        Kenning Order Fields                                  

 Renumber by    10                                                             

                                                                                

                              Literal             Seq                          

                          Order Number             10                          

                          Company                  20                          

                          Warehouse                30                          

                          Part Number              40                          

                          Description              50                           

                          Plant                    60                          

                          Line number              70                          

                          Part Type                80                          

                          Order Quantity           90                          

                          Release Qty                                          

                          Order UOM                                            

                          Reserved Qty                                         

                                                                        More...

 F3=Exit             F10=Function Select F15=Rekey Data      F18=Renumber      

 F22=End Transaction

Fields on the Sales Order Line Maintenance Field Set (SOLINE) for the Kenning

Action Code (KN).

This conversation lists all the fields that will display in the window for the action code.

In order to reposition the fields simply renumber them. To remove a field, remove the

sequence number.