View Source

You can obtain more room to work with the objects open in the Editor using autohide.

For all tabs in Navigator tab style, right-click on the tab's title bar and select Autohide from the context menu to hide the tab:

The tabs will immediately adopt the Standard tab style and will behave as follows the Standard tab style.

For all tabs in the Standard tab style, you can click on the Autohide button to hide the tab:

	When Autohide is set on, the tab folder is hidden but the tabs still remain visible as shown here: Click on the tab to re-display the contents. To return the tab folder to its original position, display one of the tab folders and click on the Attach ( ) button.

⇑ 1.5 Setting up Your Workspace

Visual LANSA User Guide

1. Getting Started with Visual LANSA

1.1 How Do I Get Started?

1.2 Before You Begin Checklist

1.3 How Do I Populate the Repository?

1.4 Using LANSA Other Products

1.5 Setting up Your Workspace

1.5.1 Editor Options

Setting the Editor Options

Web - General tab

Web - Design tab

Version Control

1.5.2 Using Tabs

Docking and Undocking Tabs

Add or Remove Favorites

Can't Find a Tab?

Change Tab Locations

Quickly Resize Tabs

2. Editing Objects

2.1.1 Create Dialogs

2.2.1 Create Fields

2.2.2 Copy Fields

2.2.3 Field Definition Tab

2.2.4 Field Rules and Triggers Tab

Adopt Field Rules and Triggers

2.2.5 Field Visualization Tab

2.3.1 Create Forms

2.4.1 Create Functions

2.4.2 Copy Functions

2.4.3 Design Functions

2.4.4 Function Screen Designer

Screen Details Tab

Screen Representation

Function Keys Tab

Fields, Groups and Lists Tab

Create a Screen

2.4.5 Function Report Designer

2.5.1 Create Processes

2.5.2 Copy a Process

2.5.3 Functions Tab

2.5.4 Definition Tab

2.5.5 Attachments Tab

2.5.6 Special Entries Tab

2.5.7 Process Parameters Tab

2.5.8 Action Bar Table Tab

2.5.9 Menu Structure Tab

Register ActiveX Controls

2.6.4 External Resources

Register Individual External Resources

External Resource Definition Tab

2.6.6 Multilingual Variables

Create Multilingual Variables

Copy Multilingual Variables

2.6.7 System Variables

Create System Variables

2.6.9 Visual Styles

Create Visual Styles

2.6.11 .NET Components

Register .NET Components

2.7 Reusable Parts

2.7.1 Create Reusable Parts

2.8 Server Modules

2.8.1 Create Server Modules

New Base Server Module

New Application Server Module

New WEB API Server Module

2.8.2 API Definition Tab

Partition Handling

Language Handling

Publish as Swagger V2

Publish as OpenAPI V3

Security requirements

Path Parameters

Security Schemes

2.9.1 Create Tables

2.9.2 Copy Tables

2.9.3 Table Columns Tab

Add Columns to a Table

Add Multiple Columns to a Table

2.9.4 Indexes Tab

2.9.5 Table Rules and Triggers Tab

2.9.6 Access Route Tab

2.9.7 Batch Control Tab

2.9.8 Table Attributes Tab

2.9.9 Data Preview Tab

2.9.10 Relationships Tab

2.9.11 Cross References Tab

2.9.12 Virtual Derivation Tab

2.10.1 Create Views

2.11.1 Create Web Pages

2.12 Organizers

2.12.1 Database Diagrams

Create a Diagram

Save Results of Search as List

Add and Remove searches

Change the Impact List's Definition

Add Object Types

Specify Filters for your Objects

Filter Criteria

Save and Run an Impact List

Review the Results

Export the Impact List

2.13 System Information

2.13.1 Message Files

2.13.2 Partitions

Create Partitions

Partition Definition Tab

Language Settings Tab

2.13.3 Primitives

2.13.4 Remote Systems

Create Remote System

System Definition Tab

2.13.5 Templates

Create a Template

Copy a Template

User Privileges Tab

2.14 WAM Development Objects

2.14.1 Web Application Modules (WAMs)

Outline tab – WAMs

Details Tab (Property Sheet)

Webroutine Output

Create a Web Page

Design Versions

Using External Resources with WAMs

Style External Resources with WAMs

Script External Resources with WAMs

2.14.2 Web Components

Create Weblet Design

Replace Visualization Weblet

2.14.4 Technology Services

Technology Services Definition Tab

Create Technology Service

3. Standard Editor Tabs

3.1 Editor Features

3.2 Check In Tab

3.2.1 Check In Details Dialog

3.3 Check Out Tab

3.3.1 Check Out Details Dialog

3.3.2 Refresh Master Object List

3.4 Compile Tab

3.4.1 Compile options

3.4.2 Compile Details Dialog

3.5 Controls Tab

3.6 Cross References Tab

3.7.1 Debug - Breakpoints Tab

3.7.2 Debug - Variables Tab

3.7.3 Debug - Call Stack Tab

3.8.1 Design Commands on the Ribbon

Home Tab Design Commands

Expose as ActiveX

Select All/None/Invert Selection

Bring Forward/Send Backward

Table Layout Row Height

Moving Table Layout Rows

Adding Table Layout Rows

Table Layout Column Width

Moving Table Layout Columns

Adding Table Layout Columns

Deleting the Table Layout

Attaching All Child Components to the Table Layout

Positioning an Object in the Table Layout

3.8.2 Design Tab for Functions

3.8.3 Other Objects in the Design Tab

3.8.4 Saved Definitions

3.8.5 Copy Component

3.9.1 Deploy Any List

3.10 Details Tab

3.10.1 Component Details Tabs

Component Details - Properties tab

Component Details - Events tab

Component Details - Methods tab

3.11 Favorites Tab

3.12 Features Tab

3.14 Outline Tab

3.14.1 Showing Layouts and Styles in the Outline Tab

3.14.2 Outline Tab Context Menu for Components

3.15 Propagation Tab

3.15.1 Connection History Dialog

3.16 Repository Details Tab

3.17 Repository Help Tab

3.17.1 Languages

3.18 Repository Tab

3.18.1 Show Repository Tab

3.18.2 Repository Tab Contents

3.18.3 Information about Objects

3.18.4 View Object Properties

3.18.5 Alphabetical Groupings

3.18.6 Object Cross-References

3.19 Samples Tab

3.20 Source Tab

3.20.1 Rules for the Editor

3.20.4 Auto Complete

3.20.5 Assistant Tab

List of Commands

Specify Parameters

The Last Saved Command

Specify Attribute Values for Parameters

3.21 Version Control Tab

3.22 Web Design Tab

4. Editor Features

4.1 Open an Object

4.2 Delete Objects

4.3 LANSA Import Facility

4.3.1 Import Tab

4.4 Version Control

4.4.1 Visual LANSA Actions

4.4.2 Version Control Actions

4.4.3 Viewing Version Control Status

4.4.4 Version Control Commands

4.4.5 Version Control – Git Integration

Create a Git Repository

Remote Repositories

Existing Git repositories

Git Actions on Objects

Resolve Conflict

Show Version Control Differences

Show in Folder View

Show Repository

Git Repository Actions

New Local Branch From

Rebase - Continue

Viewing Git Status

4.5 Import Excel Worksheets

4.5.1 Installing the Driver

4.6 Export a List to Excel

4.7 Search Facilities

4.7.1 Repository Find

4.7.2 Text Search

4.7.3 Source Code Find and Replace

4.8 Interface Indicators

4.9 Printing in Visual LANSA

4.9.1 Print Dialog

4.10.1 LANSA Online Documentation

5. Executing Applications

5.1 Execute Process

5.2 Execute Function

5.3 Execute Form

5.4 Execute Web Page

5.5 Execute WebRoutine

5.6 Execute Options

5.6.1 As Client to Any Server (manual connection)

5.6.2 As Client to RDML IBM i Server

5.6.3 As Client to RDMLX IBM i Server

5.6.4 As Client to Linux Server

5.6.5 As Client to Windows Server

5.6.6 As Windows Application

5.6.7 In Web Browser

5.6.8 XML Java Client

5.6.9 Prompt for additional execution Parameters

5.7 Additional Execution Parameters

5.7.1 Default Printer

5.7.3 Debug Host

5.7.5 Max Trace Lines

5.7.6 Trace Level

5.7.7 Trace Categories

5.7.8 Heap Validation

5.7.9 Show command line

5.7.10 Render Type

5.7.11 Graphics Processing

5.8 Fatal Errors

5.8.1 Visual LANSA Error Log Viewer

5.8.2 Web Runtime Error Log Viewer

6. Debugging Applications

6.1 Start Debugging

6.2 Set Breakpoints

6.2.1 Breakpoints

6.2.2 Breakpoint Properties

6.3.1 Include/Exclude Fields

6.3.2 Changing Values

6.5 Run Parts of the Application

6.6 Exclude/Include Applications

6.7 Animate Application Execution

6.8 Debug Web Pages

7. Tracing Applications

7.1 Create a Trace Handler

7.2 Example Trace Handler

7.3 Use the Trace Handler

7.4 Example Use of Tracing

7.5 Trace Output

7.6 Trace Handler Guidelines and Performance

8. Editor Basics

8.1.2 Tools Tab

8.1.3 Navigate the Ribbon with Access Keys

8.2 Quick Access Toolbar

8.3 Mini-Toolbars

8.4 Context Menus

8.6 Keyboard Shortcuts

8.6.2 Close Tabs

8.6.3 Move the cursor in the Source tab

8.6.4 Position the current line

8.6.5 Tag and comment lines

8.6.6 Collapse and expand code

8.6.7 Format text

8.6.8 Deletions

8.6.9 Copy, cut and paste

8.6.11 Selection

8.6.12 Undo/Redo

8.6.13 Find and replace

8.6.14 Command Assistant Keystrokes

8.6.15 Menu editor

8.6.16 Select with the mouse

8.7 Product Information

8.7.1 About LANSA

8.7.2 Installation Details

8.7.3 Privileges