Financials Forms for Interactive Applications

Use these guidelines when developing any form type within a financials application:

• On all forms on which an address book number appears, use Long Address Number, data item ALKY, rather than Address Book Number, data item AN8, because ALKY allows 20 characters for input.

  If necessary, use ALKY to call AN8 for information. Address number controls that are input-capable must accept an alternate number as input. The symbols in the Address Book Constants determine the default address book number. Use the business function B0100016, Scrub Address Number, to accomplish this.

• If you enter an asset number in an unknown format, such as ASCII, the system returns the number as the primary asset number, which is determined by the symbols in the Fixed Asset Constants.

  Use the business function X1202-F1201, Validate Asset Number, to accomplish this.