ASAP 3.0 Client Manual

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distributed across different NonStop servers, and Client components and EDL files are
also distributed across different Microsoft Windows workstations.
ASAP Client EDL files do not have to include all entities known to the ASAP Server
and Extension. You can choose to not define various entities, or to define only subsets
of objects for an entity using the Command Entity property. For more information, see
Command - EDL Entity Property on page 134. As a result, you can limit which
entities and objects users normally view from their workstations.
EDL - IDE Access
To access the EDL IDE window, select either Import EDL or Export EDL from the File
menu in the main ASAP Browse window.
The EDL IDE is an advanced feature of the ASAP environment. The IDE is typically
only used by application and system programmers, not end-users or operations
personnel.
Because of this, the environment is not enabled by default. To enable the EDL IDE,
see EDL Features and Terminology on page 125 Once you enable the IDE, you can
open the EDL IDE as described here.
Export EDL
To display the EDL IDE to review or modify the entity, attribute, and data definitions for
the current ASAP environment, choose Export EDL from the Browse window File
menu. A dialog box appears prompting you for the type of information you want to
export into the IDE window.
When you click OK, ASAP generates EDL source for your current environment and
displays that source in the EDL IDE window. You can then save or modify EDL files,
which can contain data from your ASAP session, for later use. You can also e-mail
EDL files to other users for their use on other workstations.
Import EDL
To open, design, develop, modify, or display entity and attribute definitions for an EDL
file, choose Import EDL from the Browse window File menu. An empty EDL IDE source
window appears, which you can use to create or browse EDL files.
When you import an EDL entity definition, you can edit and compile it. When you
successfully compile the definition, it is automatically added immediately to the ASAP
Client environment. You do not have to exit the Client.
When you import an EDL entity known to ASAP Server, and your host session is
enabled, data for that entity appears in the ASAP Client. An imported entity also
appears on the Entity Tab of the ASAP Property sheet, so it can be enabled or
disabled later without recompiling the entity.