Access
To work with page layouts of the current application area, choose the Page layouts tab of the Object manager.
Lists
Page layouts
List of all the page layouts attached to the current application area, with their names and description.
The sort sequence can be defined by clicking the column headers of the list.
Extended-selection list.
With correction environments, there may be a check mark in front of each page layout name.
A red check mark shows that the page layout is being held by the default correction.
A black check mark shows that the page layout is being held by a correction other than the default correction.
Context-sensitive menu
The following options are accessible at all times via the context-sensitive menu.
In addition, there may be buttons to perform the same actions on the right-hand side of the window, depending on the settings in the Create/Modify a software engineer dialog box's Preferences tab.
Create
This option opens a dialog box which is used to create a page layout.
Modify
This option opens a dialog box which is used to display or modify the general characteristics of the selected page layout.
This option is not active when no page layout is selected in the list.
This option prints the description of the selected page layouts.
The printing job is submitted to the Job manager.
This option is not active when no page layout is selected in the list.
Copy
This option opens a dialog box which is used to copy a page layout of the current application area.
This option is not active when no page layout is selected in the list.
Delete
This option deletes the selected page layouts, after confirmation.
When the deletion is validated, the list of page layouts is updated accordingly.
This option is not active when no page layout is selected in the list.
Attach
This option opens a dialog box which is used to attach one or several page layouts of the repository to the current application area.
Detach
This option detaches the selected page layouts from the current application area.
This option is not active when no page layout is selected in the list.
App. areas
This opens a dialog box displaying the application areas to which the selected page layout is attached.
This is not active when no page layouts is selected in the list.
Analyze
This option opens a dialog box displaying all the programs that use the selected page layout.
This option is only active when one or more page layouts are selected in the list.
Hold
This opens a dialog box enabling the selected page layouts to be held by the default correction.
This is only visible in correction environments.
It is only active when one or more page layouts are selected in the list and the user has a default correction.