HP Integrity NonStop J-Series - Manual (Page 121)

TAILORING AN APPLICATION
How to Customize a Screen
• Wherever possible, try to limit the screen display to a single
screen page. In particular, avoid splitting boxes across
screens because users might update partial records if they
cannot see all the fields of a record on a single screen page.
• Use a tabular screen format wherever appropriate. With this
format, records appear to be organized in a table, a format
that is familiar to most users.
• Exclude any fields from a box that do not need to appear. For
some applications, a user does not need to see every field in
a record. If a record contains particularly sensitive
information, such as an employee's salary or age, consider
excluding these fields from any application used solely for
display purposes.
How To Customize a Screen
You can customize a screen for an application by supplying the
appropriate values for the box and application attributes that
determine screen format. Table 6-1 lists these attributes and
indicates how a value supplied for each attribute affects the
screen.
6-3