Application Parameters

With the Application Parameters utility, the application designer can define or modify the parameters for an application. When you select application parameters from the Utilities menu, the screen shown in Figure 1-8-2 appears.

The Application Parameters screen contains the following fields:

·     Application Name. Enter a descriptive name for this application.

·     Release Number. Supply the release number for this application.

·     Base Language. The language the application is presented to the user in. This encompasses all parts of the application made visible to the user such as menus, input processes, warnings, errors, etc. The Language ID file can be scanned to make a selection but this field is needed only if the Language Translation feature is in use at your site.

·     Global Domains App. Enter the three-character ID of the application that contains your global — or universal — domains.

You use the Global Domains application to help default domain names when entering the data dictionary. If you add a domain-type field, and the field name contains the name of a domain within the application, that domain name is supplied as the default for that field’s domain. If no match is found in the current application, and if the field contains a domain name that exists in the Global Domains application you identify here, APPX will use that domain name as the default.

·     First Menu For —

·    Initial Setup. Enter the name of the startup menu that should be presented to the user when the application’s operational phase is Initial Setup.      

·    Live Operations. Enter the name of the startup menu that should be presented to the user when the application’s operational phase is Live Operations.

·    Recovery Processing. Enter the name of the startup menu that should be presented to the user when the application’s operational phase is Recovery Processing.

·     Direct Process 2 —

·    Application ID. Enter the application ID that should be executed when the end user chooses Direct Process 2 while in this application.

·    Process Type. Enter the type of process that should be executed when the end user chooses Direct Process 2 while in this application.

·    Process Name. Enter the name of the process that should be executed when the end user chooses Direct Process 2 while in this application. If this is a menu, all of the optional processes defined on the menu will also be listed under the Application selection from the user’s menu bar while in that application. If Direct Process 2 is defined as a single non-menu process, then only that process will appear as a selection under Application.

The Applications Parameters screen contains these options:

·     Documentation contains user and technical documentation regarding the application.

·     Application Locks are the method by which APPX applications can restrict run-time and design access in the licensing of their applications. Applications locks may or may not be included for this application. The Author ID field and each of the Lock fields in this overlay refer to individual Product Registrations which must be present in your APPX System Registration before you will have access to the corresponding feature within this application.