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Chapter 10 Maintaining Menus : Adding Help Information

Adding Help Information
Help information can be added for Screen Manager, Selection Manager, and Standard Session Manager menu styles. Help information is stored in the same table used by the screen definer so you can create and modify help information using PF9. You can also use the primary command EDHELP from the Menu Definer or in the Screen Definer for the Selection Manager and Screen Manager menu styles.
Adding Help Information
To add help information from the Menu Definer, complete the following tasks:
1.
A help screen appears that you can edit using the text editor (TED).
2.
If information appears in the Usage and Purpose fields of the Menu Definer screen, you can embed the information in the Help screen using the .table command described below.
See Also
TIBCO Object Service Broker Shareable Tools for information on the SCRIPT and TED tools.
SCRIPT Commands
You can use the following two SCRIPT commands to create help:
.table menu_items (menuname) title, usage, purpose
For the Screen Manager and the Selection Manager styles of menus, you can use the full range of SCRIPT commands to format the help text.
Help Screen Restrictions
Do not embed the FCNKEYS table in the Help screen. The menus that you create all use the predefined keys 2, 3, and 12; therefore, you cannot define function keys for a menu.
Example
The following two examples illustrate unformatted screen help and the formatted screen help the users see when they use PF1.
Unformatted Screen Help
The following example illustrates unformatted screen help for the menu SEL_EMPLOYEE:

 
Enter HELP text for screen SEL_EMPLOYEE
_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_ .setup help
_ .p.This menu is used to enter weekly expenses, and create and
_ browse weekly status reports.
_ You can browse the following two types of status reports:
_ .ul.
_ .li.Open
_ .li.Closed
_ .eul.
_ .p.Place your cursor on the line command field beside the item you want to
_ access and press Enter.
PFKEYS: 12=QUIT 13=PRINT 3=SAVE 5=SCRIPT

 
Formatted Screen Help
The following example illustrates formatted screen help for the menu SEL_EMPLOYEE:

 
Formatted Output Scroll: P
This menu is used to enter weekly expenses, and create and browse weekly
status reports. You can browse the following two types of status reports:
-> Open
-> Closed
Place your cursor on the line command field beside the item you want to
access and press Enter.
 

 

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