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Novice users don’t need to remember application names and can easily navigate using menus to accomplish their tasks.

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Menus Menus can can be creat created ed accordi according ng to each each users users work work profi profile le

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Related Related tasks tasks can can be grouped grouped together together using using the the menus menus and submenus submenus..

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Above screen shot displays Model Bank menu. This menu has three submenus User Menu, Admin Menu and Role Based Home Pages. The menus can be expanded by clicking on the individual items. All user related tasks are grouped under the user menu and administration tasks are grouped under admin menu. This helps the user to navigate easily. When the user expands a menu item by clicking, the submenus are listed for each of the top level menus. User Menu, Admin Menu and Role Based Home Pages form the first level of menus. Customer Relationship, Customer, CRM form the next level of menu items

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To create the required menus, we must create records in HELPTEXT.MENU. MY.CUST.MENU is created with three links. The Application field can be multi valued to provide multiple links. Application field can contain an APPLICATION, VERSION, ENQUIRY, other MENUs. Application can also contain other values that are not discussed here. MY.ACCOUNT.MENU is created with four links

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Now that the submenus are ready, how can you put them together? Submenus are combined to create a main menu. This can be done using the HELPTEXT.MAINMENU application. ID : Must be numeric GB Title – Meaningful description for the menu Id Of Help Menu : This field must hold the ID of an existing HELPTEXT.MENU GB Description : Description that will appear for the submenu

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ID of the menu is prefixed with ‘?’ and  given in the INIT.APPLICATION field of the USER profile

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A composit composite e screen screen is a collection collection of various various screens screens in T24.

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A composit composite e screen screen is divided divided into into frames frames of differe different nt sizes, sizes, as as shown. shown.

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Each frame may contain contain T24 menu menu or Tabbed Tabbed Screen Screen or URL URL or other content. content.

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Compos Composite ite scre screens ens are are defin defined ed in the the T24 T24 applica applicatio tion n EB.COMPOSITE.SCREEN

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You can design your composite screens using EB.COMPOSITE.SCREEN application or the SCREEN.DESIGNER. Type COS SCREEN.DESIGNER at the command prompt. COS refers to Composite Screens. Alternatively, Click on Admin Menu -> Implementation Utilities -> Customisation -> Screen Designer. The screen designer can be used to create, edit or launch versions, tabbed screens and composite screens. Using COS, the browser window can be divided into frames of size as desired. Each frame can contain a link, an enquiry, tabbed screen, etc

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Design the above above given composite screen. Divide the window into two horizontal frames. Launch ACCOUNT.CLOSURE enquiry in Frame 1 Frame 2 – Leave it blank. We shall soon see what it is used for.

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Launch Launch EB.COMP EB.COMPOSI OSITE. TE.SCR SCREEN EEN applica applicatio tion n

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The The ID can can be any any alpha alpha-n -num umer eric ic tex textt

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TITLE  – Specify the title for the composite screen. The text specified here will be displayed as the description text of o f your composite screen.

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A composit composite e screen screen is divided divided into into frames. frames. Now Now where where do you specif specify y these these framesets?

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CONTE NTENT.TY .TYPE  – Choose from the drop down to select a value. OPEN.FRAME is used to open a frameset.

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ROWS – Is the window split horizontally or vertically? If it is split horizontally, gi ve frame size in ROWS. Else, give framesize in the field COLS. Size can be defined as a percentage. For eg 25%,* (means top frame occupies 25% of window and remaining space is allocated to lower frame)

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CONTE NTENT.TY .TYPE  –  What kind of content will be opened here? ENQ, MENU, TABBED screen.

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CONTENT  – Specify the ID of the menu, enquiry, tabbed screen etc that you wish to open here

CONTENT.TYPE is specified as BLANK for the lower frame. frame. Why is a blank frame needed? In the empty frame you may launch enquiries, versions or any unassigned requests. The field ITEMS is used to define what requests should be sent to this blank frame. When you choose the ALL option here you tell the system to launch all unassigned requests in this frame.

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Specify content for all frames that you have created

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Content.Type.1 will always be OPEN.FRAME for a COS

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Screen is split vertically hence, COLS  – 30%,*

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Now specify what goes in the left frame

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Content.Type.2 – Menu

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Name.2 – any meaningful name

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Content.2 – HELPTEXT.MENU ID

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Left frame definition complete

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Right Frame must be split further, hence

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Content.3 – Open.Frame

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Rows.3 is specified as Right Frame is split horizontally

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Now specify what is content for right frame, top half

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Content.Type.4 is Enq

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Content.4 is the name of the Enquiry %CUSTOMER

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Content.Type.5 is given as BLANK to accommodate all types of content here

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Frames that have been opened are closed in Content.Type.6 and Content.Type.7

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To create a composite screen use the built-in composite screen called SCREEN.DESIGNER. To launch a composite screen use the COS command. Specify COS SCREEN.DESIGNER in the command line. This will launch the composite screen. Use the New Composite Screen link to create one. The id to your composite screen can be any alpha numeric text.

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The Composite screen created before is shown here using the SCREEN.DESIGNER

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1. HELPTEXT.MENU can be used to create parent menus - True / False Answer: True 2. In T24 default menus can be attached to the user profile based on their tasks tasks  – True / False Answer: True 3. COS can be used to launch the composite screen from the command line - True / False Answer: True 4. What is the use of setting a Frame a s BLANK frame in COS? Answer: Any unassigned request can be opened in a blank frame 5. To attach a menu to the user profile, HELPTEXT.MAINMENU id is specified in the INIT.APPLICATION field of the user profile - True / False Answer: True

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