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The action bar is the element at the top of the screen that consists of a list of choices representing a group of related actions that the users can request. A group of actions appear in a pull down list when users select an item on the action bar. Action bars control the user's dialogue with the application. ?

The action bar implementation within LANSA is at the process level.

A process, which is typically used as a menu in an SAA/CUA partition, can be made to act as an action bar instead.

This facility is controlled by the "Process Menu/Style" field that is specified when "Creating a new process".

Additionally it can be changed via the "Miscellaneous Process Details" facility.

A single line action bar process might appear like this:
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If a user selected the first action bar choice (File), then a pull down might appear like this:
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