Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Getting Started

Running your folder window

To see the results of your work, you must first launch the Customer Browse. Your new Customer Orders Browse is a dependent window. It expects a foreign key value to be passed in from its parent window.

Note: Remember that you must have the Repository and the DynSports databases connected to run your application. The Repository is automatically connected by the framework managers when you start Progress Dynamics. However, you have not modified the configuration file yet to instruct the managers to connect the DynSports database at startup. If you want to check the connections, choose Tools Database Connections from the AppBuilder main window.

To view the Customer Orders Browse:

Choose Compile Dynamic Launcher. The Dynamic Launcher appears.
Type oeCustBrowseWin in the Name of Container to Launch field, and choose Run. Your Customer Browse appears:



Select a customer and choose the Modify button in the bottom toolbar. The Customer Orders Browse appears:



Look over the Customer tab. Note the Sales Rep combo box that you defined for the viewer earlier. If you choose the button next to one of the decimal fields, Credit Limit or Balance, a calculator appears:



This is a standard feature of dynamic viewers. You get the calculator by default for decimal fields unless you request otherwise. Similarly, a calendar comes up for date fields. These are Progress 4GL-based objects, not ActiveX controls.

Select the Orders/Lines tab, as shown:



Here you see the dynamic Browsers you defined for this page. You can see Orders for the current Customer and Order Lines for the current Order. Select another Order to see how the Order Lines Browser is repopulated.

Exit the Customer Orders Browse and the Customer Browse windows, and close the Dynamic Launcher.