Field help (ATBINTITZO)

Title for the field over three lengths : short title being limited to 12 characters, normal title at 20 characters and the long title at 35 characters.

These titles are translatable texts and they are stored in a dedicated table, ATEXTE. When a new text is entered, after creation of a section, a window appears whose title is Text. There is then a choice between the following three options :

         consider that the entered text is a new text and integrate it in the database by assigning a new number. This number must be greater than 50,000 (because it is a custom/specific text).

         search for a text close to that entered in order to select the same. A selection will then open for this.

         cancel the text entry.

When in modification mode for a text already entered there is also an additional choice of displaying in the window, where the title is presented Text nnn (nnn being its number). Indeed, it is then possible to modify the text whose number is given, to conform with the text that is being entered (this modification is made wherever the corresponding text is used, once the corresponding screens have been revalidated).

In addition, it is possible to call, using the right button on the mouse, the Abbreviation function that is used to select one of the standardised abbreviations defined when a title is too long (the use of abbreviations must be avoided as far as possible to facilitate the readability of the screens).