Form Guidelines

When developing forms in interactive applications, ensure that you:

• Do not preload a next number.

• Use any of these actions to prevent a user from accessing a form or row exit:

  • Disable the exit.

  • Set an error.

• You use the four-digit data item Fiscal Year (FYR) for a fiscal year filter.

• You use an alpha field to display the fiscal year on a form so that you can distinguish between blank and zero.

  When you enter a two-digit mathematical numeric fiscal year on a form, it appears as a single digit for years zero through nine, and users might not be able to differentiate between a blank and a zero. Use the display field FYOW for the fiscal year and include this logic:

  IF not blank convert FYOW to FY 
   

• You use an asterisk (*) as the default value for Subledger and blank as the default value for Subledger Type, when you use Subledger and Subledger Types as filter fields.

• You use a text variable rather than a hard-coded text string to load a field or variable. Text variables can be translated, but hard-coded text cannot.

• You verify:

  • That grid totals sum only data that is the same date type.

    For example, do not sum different currencies or values with different decimal points.

  • That totals for a form level are generally within the group box that surrounds the grid.