6.4 Customizing Process Specific Pages
LANSA Web functions allow you to customize any of the default pages to be process specific. Whenever LANSA encounters a request to use a default page, it will search for a process specific version of the page. If the process specific page is found, it will automatically be used. If it cannot find a process specific page, it will then use the default page.
To create a process specific page, use the following naming convention:
<process name>_<page identifier>
where <process name> is the name of the LANSA process and <page identifier> is the name of the 'default' page you want to customize for the process.
For example, if you want to customize a process specific Script page for the PSLSYS process, you would create a page named PSLSYS_SCRIPT.
From time to time, LANSA may amend the default pages, either during an upgrade or via an EPC (Expedited Program Change).
If such a change occurs, you must ensure that this change is reflected in all process specific pages that you have created.
Examples of shipped DEFAULT pages which can be customized:
DEFAULT_CONTENT Default Process Content
DEFAULT_FRAMESET Default Frameset
DEFAULT_HIDDEN Default Hidden fields
DEFAULT_INDEX Default Process Menu page
DEFAULT_LAYOUT Default Layout
DEFAULT_SCRIPT Default Script Page
Example:
If a process is called PAYROLL, the process specific default pages would be created as:
PAYROLL_CONTENT Default Process Content
PAYROLL_FRAMESET Default Frameset
PAYROLL_HIDDEN Default Hidden fields
PAYROLL_INDEX Default Process Menu page
PAYROLL_LAYOUT Default Layout
PAYROLL_SCRIPT Default Script Page
If you want to append additional lines to the default page for a specific process, you can do this by using the <RDML PAGE> tag. For more details, refer to <RDML PAGE>.
Caution: When exporting a web enabled function, process pages with the above naming convention for the associated process are also exported. For example, a function in process PAYROLL when exported will export all HTML pages for the function and all HTML pages starting with the characters 'PAYROLL_'. Therefore, ensure that you do not create HTML pages that follow this naming convention that conflict with the name of a process.
All process specific pages are automatically exported with the LANSA process definition. These pages do not have to be registered as Web components.
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