Field help (ANOLIB)

Defines the local menu number associated with the field defined on the line.

When a field is of the type local menu (from 1 to 255) corresponding to the rank of a title in a table named local menu, stored in the messages table APLSTD.

On entry or on display, the following are displayed according to the choices made in the user interface :

• either a title can be chosen in a scrolling list commonly called a combo box
• or a list of buttons.

The interest of this type of entry is that the list of choices is displayed in the user connection language.

Each local menu number characterises the list of available titles. For example, the local menu 1 corresponds to the choice No / Yes in this order. In this particular case, the user interface can also be a check box.