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Creating and Using Templates

User’s Guide

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7. Select the new

Display

node (

Display: How Many?

).’

Enter

How Many? on the 1st line and Menu on the 4th line.

Press

OK

.

8. Skip over the two

Output

nodes for now, and select the new

Input

node (

Input: Quantity

).

On the

Input From

tab, enable the

Data Key

and

Function Key

checkboxes. Make sure the

Scanner

checkbox is disabled.

Link the

Function Key

setting to

Frame Main Menu and the

Data Key

setting to

Copy to File.

9. On the

Display

tab, enable the

Echo to Display

checkbox.

Select

Specify Position from the pull-down list, enter 1

in the

Row

pull-down list, and

0 in the

Col

box.

Press

OK

.

Creating the Fields

Create the template fields by completing the following steps:

1. On the

Store Info

tab on the

Input: Quantity

dialog, select

Regis-

ter as the

Data Destination

type. Select the

Inventory

Register

.

2. To create the template name, select

Field as the

Write

type.

Inventory

is the same register used to store the

item number

. To keep one value

from being overwritten by the other, you can create a template to divide the register
into two fields: one for the

quantity

and one for the

item number

.

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