QAD CSS User Interface

The screens that you use to perform administrative functions share common features. This section describes how you navigate in QAD CSS, common screen components, and how you complete common functions such as deleting records.

Sample Maintenance Screen

Sample Maintenance Screen illustrates a sample maintenance screen in QAD CSS. Many screens open with the same type of display, which lists all currently defined records that you can maintain using the active function. In Sample Maintenance Screen, currently defined browses display.

These types of screens include the following key components:

Search For

Enter search criteria to limit the results of the search. This component works with the next field, the search for column selector.

Search For column selector.

This component determines the target browse column for the search. To modify which columns are available for searching requires programmatic customizations.

Search

Click Search to execute the search.

Clear

Click Clear to reset and initialize the search to its initial state.

Add

Click Add button activate the edit window in Add mode. Only one edit window can be open at a time.

Column Sort Identifier

Clicking a searchable column gives that column sort control of the result set. Clicking the same column a second time inverts the sort order.

Delete Record Link

Clicking the delete link permanently deletes the record of the corresponding row.

Edit Record Link

Click a link to an existing record to activate the edit window. Only one edit window can be open at a time. The column you use to edit a record varies between different screens, but is always highlighted as an active link.

Example: In Sample Maintenance Screen, click Browse Name to edit the code.

Navigation Bar

The QAD CSS navigation bar is a standard screen component used to navigate through a set of records. It controls the display of the number of records in the current result set, determines the number of records per result set. It also allows you navigate the result page by page when more than one page of data exists.