3-09:Designer Selections Option

Chapter 3-9: Query Processes

Designer Selections Option

The designer selections option allows you to access non-interactive record selections. These function in exactly the same way as enduser selections, except that the operator never sees the runtime screens and, hence, cannot modify the operators. The Designer Selections overlay is shown in Figure 3-9-8:

Figure 3-9-8. Designer Selections Overlay

Toolbox Option

The database management option allows you to add new files or maintain existing ones without leaving query process design.

The process management option allows you to add other types of processes or maintain existing ones without leaving query process design.

The design transfer option allows you to copy the attributes from a process that you have already designed and apply it to a new process.

The syntax check feature allows you to create the Executable Module for the current query process without actually running it. If the Executable Module for the query process is valid this option is ignored when invoked. Note that this option, like any option with a value of 90 or greater, is available for use from any screen in Application Design without having to go to the Toolbox.

The view audit info feature allows you to see who created the currently selected query process and who changed the currently selected query process most recently. It also gives the date of creation and the date it was last changed. Note that this option, like any option with a value of 90 or greater, is available for use from any screen in Application Design without having to go to the Toolbox.

The invoke a process feature is available to facilitate testing. It allows you to invoke any process; the currently selected query process using the Test Database defined in system administration is the default. Note that this option, like any option with a value of 90 or greater, is available for use from any screen in Application Design without having to go to the Toolbox.

Designer Selections Expression Option

The designer selections expression option accesses the Designer Selections Expression overlay, shown in Figure 3-9-9. Designer Selections Expression specifications allow you to access non-interactive record selections. These function in exactly the same way as enduser selections, except that the operator never sees the runtime screens and, hence, cannot modify the operators.

Figure 3-9-9. Designer Selections Expression Overlay

The Designer Selections Expression overlay contains the following field.

· Designer Selections Expression defines a logical expression that joins record selection constraints established in the Designer Selections overlay. Constraints are identified by their sequence number. They can then be combined with other constraints by using ANDs, ORs, and parentheses. Valid entries in a selections expression are any sequence number that a constraint is defined for, AND, OR, and ( ).

If Designer Selections Expression is blank, all record selection constraints are ANDed. If either the Relation or the App/Field Name or Constant/Occ selections specification is blank, the relation is ignored (considered to be true). Any selections specification that is not explicitly referenced by a sequence number in a selections expression must be true for the selections expression to be true. A selections expression using all of the various Selections Expression entries might look something like the following:

((200 OR 300) AND 1000) OR (400 - 700)

Note that the additional attributes option does not appear on the Designer Selections overlay like it does on the Enduser Selections overlay because it is not necessary to include the field Editable at Runtime? since the user is not allowed to modify these fields.

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