HP 3000 Manuals

Getting Started With TRANSACT V

Appendix F  Loading Form Definitions 

The utility DICTVPD may be used to load form definitions to the
dictionary.  When the forms are defined using FORMSPEC, you must be
careful to define the field names to be the same as the names you want to
identify with the form in the dictionary.

For example, the following is the FORMSPEC listing of the form
vorderhead.

      ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* *********
      vorderhead                    order data

          order number [order_no]   customer [cust ]    status  [st]  date [date  ]
                        ________              _____              __         ______
     ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* **********
      Field: order_no
         Num:14    Len: 8     Name: ORDER_NO         Enh: HI    FType: O  DType: CHAR
         Init Value:

      Field: cust
         Num: 2    Len: 5     Name: CUST_NO          Enh: HI    FType: O  DType: CHAR
         Init Value:

      Field: st
         Num: 3    Len: 2     Name: ORDER_STATUS     Enh: HI    FType: O  DType: CHAR
         Init Value:

      Field: date
         Num: 4    Len: 6     Name: ORDER_DATE       Enh: HI    FType: O  DType: CHAR
         Init Value:

This form definition was loaded into the dictionary as follows:

     :run dictvpd.pub.sys

     DICTIONARY/3000 VPLUS LOADER     HP32244A.02.00 - (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1983

     DICTIONARY PASSWORD>

     FORMS FILE NAME> formfile

     SELECT DATA CONVERSION (Default/Char)>

     DATA ELEMENTS ALREADY DEFINED (Y/N)> y

     LIST FILE>

     CHANGE UNDERSCORE TO HYPHEN (Y/N)> y

     LOADING DATA DICTIONARY
     FORM NAME TO BE LOADED (or "@"/"?")> vorderhead

     LOADING FORM: VORDER_HEAD

     FORM NAME TO BE LOADED (or "@"/"?")>

     Name            Alias           NEW/OLD Type

     FORMFILE                        NEW     VPLS

     VORDERHEAD                      NEW     FORM
     ORDER-NO                        OLD     X ( 8, 0, 8)
     CUST-NO                         OLD     9 ( 4, 0, 4)
     ORDER-STATUS                    OLD     X ( 2, 0, 2)
     ORDER-DATE                      OLD     X ( 6, 0, 6)

     END OF PROGRAM
     :

Note that the form definition used the underscore character.  DICTVPD 
will convert the underscore to a hyphen if directed to do so.

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