HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS) Reference Manual (32209-90024)

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INTRODUCTION TO FORMS DESIGN
EASE OF FORMS DESIGN
Assuming the first line of the field contains 79 characters, the second line contains 80
characters, and the third line contains 34 characters, the entire field is 193 characters
long. This count excludes the printing brackets which delimit the beginning and the end of
the field.
Field Name
The field tag assigned during form design is shifted up to all uppercase letters and
becomes the field name. You can enter another name in this field. For example, you may
want a longer name than would fit in the field, or if two tags are no longer unique when
shifted to all capitals, you can rename one of them here. In any case, the name in this field
(an upshifted tag or a new name) identifies the field in subsequent references. It must not
be one of the reserved words listed in Table 3-2.
You can enter any name up to 15 characters long. Like other FORMSPEC names, it must
be USASCII and start with an alphabetic character. It may be followed by uppercase or
lowercase letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), or an underline ().
Default The uppercase field tag.
Table 3-2. FORMSPEC Reserved Word List
ALL FILL LOCALEDITS SET
APPEND FINISH LT STDCHAR
BARCODE FREEZE MAGSTRIPE STOP
CAD GE MARKS STRIP
CDIGIT GT MAT THEN
CENTER HOLES MATCH TO
CFORM IF MFR TRAILING
CHANGE ILV MINLEN TYPEV
CLEAR IN NE UPC
COD INIT NFORM UPSHIFT
CONFIG 125 NIN $EMPTY
CUT 139 NOCUT $END
DEVICE JUSTIFY NONE $HEAD
DISPLAY KEYBOARD NOREPEAT $LENGTH
EAN LARGECHAR OF $REFRESH
ELSE LE PRINTER $RETURN
EQ LEADING RELAY $STATE
FAIL LEFT REPEAT $TODAY
FIELD LIGHT RIGHT