SET DESCRIPTIONS

Purpose

Enable or disable the display of field descriptions in full screen forms

Syntax

SET DESCRIPTIONS ON | OFF | (<expL>)

See Also

APPEND, CHANGE, CREATE, CREATE SCREEN, EDIT, INSERT, MENU FIELDS, MENU QUERY, QUERY, SET FORMAT, SET HEADING

Description

If SET DESCRIPTIONS is ON, then the field descriptions associated with a table field will be displayed as field prompts in forms. Default forms are generated for the APPEND, CHANGE, EDIT, INSERT and QUERY commands if none have been specified with the SET FORMAT TO command. The field descriptions will also be displayed in user-defined forms and field menus resulting from the MENU QUERY and MENU FIELDS commands.

Field descriptions can be toggled ON and OFF from within the form by selecting the Descriptions option in the menu bar. Field descriptions are specified when a table is created using the CREATE command. User defined forms are created with the Screen Painter, which is activated by the CREATE SCREEN command. When SET DESCRIPTIONS is ON, field descriptions rather than field names are loaded on to the Screen Painter work surface. If SET DESCPRIPTIONS is ON, and SET HEADING is set to ON, the field descriptions will display as the column titles. By default, DESCRIPTIONS are OFF.

Example

use patrons index events
set descriptions on
change all for event = "BALLET"

Products

Recital