RAMP-WINAD03: Special Field Handling

RAMP's special field handling (prompting) allows you to add features and value to your existing 5250 screens. The special field handlers are Visual LANSA forms which execute on the PC allowing you to create functionality that would not be possible in a 5250 application.

Typically features can be added to many different 5250 screens by a just a single definition and naming standard.

Objectives

To achieve this objective, you will complete the following steps:

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 1.  Understand What Makes the Prompter Appear

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 2.  Being smarter with HANDLE_PROMPT()

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 3.  Handler Styles

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 4.  Generic Handler Association

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 5. Generically Associating Date Fields with Date Picker 

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 6. Dynamic Handler Association

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 7. Communicating with a Handler

RAMP-WINAD03 Step 8. What to Do When Things Do Not Work

Summary 

Before You Begin

In order to complete this tutorial, you must have completed the core tutorials RAMP-TS001 - RAMP-TS015.

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