Re: Support for User Defined Fields

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Booth Martin wrote:
> That screen shot piques my curiosity.  May I ask how its made; the 
> tools you used?

Tools?  I normally begin with Dreamweaver to define an HTML template and 
JavaScript, which I FTP to the IFS.  Then I write an RPG program to 
handle browser and database I/O.  I use a home-grown set of service 
programs for handling browser I/O, somewhat comparable to CGIDEV2.

The left-most tab in the screen-shot corresponds to the "entity" being 
maintained, which in this case is a "person" record.  Each tab to the 
right pertains to the primary entity, but is controlled by a different 
*PGM, for the sake of modularity.  I typically link each *PGM via a 
shared data structure.  In the case of the user defined attributes tab, 
the data structure is:


D udaLink         DS                  Export Qualified
D  subject                      10A
D  entity                       10A

The subject in this case is the constant "PERSON".  The entity is the 
person ID (key to the person record).  So the utility that maintains 
user defined fields can link user defined attributes to a specific 
entity.

Nathan.