Quick screen auto-find

[arthur kogan]

Hi Chris.

Customising the generated default procedures (e.g. path, find, entry, update) is
NOT unsupported. After all, this is why Cognos provides the "ADVANCED" courses.

You just have to take a lot of care with what you do and remember to update these
procedures appropriately when making changes to the screen that would affect them
(e.g. adding new file to the screen). I normally highlight the fact that there are
some customised default procedures in the comments at the top of the screen.

However, I agree, that Powerhouse should provide a 4GL construct for all "commonly
required" functionality, and this type of thing definitely fits the bill.

How about it Cognos?

Regards,

Arthur Kogan
Westpac Financial Services
Sydney, Australia

Chris Sharman wrote:

> Belated thanks for all the responses.
>
> PATH/FIND procedures appear to be the way to go, with a few interesting
> comments:
>
> The find procedure can be generated from access statements, just the path needs
> editing (to insert the 'if'): I'd guess though that this could be unsupported.
>
> A number of suggested conditional compilation and/or include files to generate
> different screens from a single source.
>
> It's one of many (most?) Quick problems which would be solved by a facility to
> push text as well as commands.
>
> Thanks again,
> Chris Sharman
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