Creating a new DDS member

If you want to create a new DDS display file member and work with it in Screen Designer or a new printer file member and work with it in Report Designer, you first create the member in your preferred way. To do this, you can, for example, select the workbench File menu and then New > i Source Member, or right-click the source file where you want to add the member and select New > Member.

This will open the New Member dialog. Enter the required information, the name and type of the member, and press Finish to create it.

When the new member is open, it is empty, as you expect and the Outline view only contains the file entry. Now, you can define new screens and add records and fields the same way as you do when you modify an existing file.

Note: You can also open a local file with the extension .dspf with Screen Designer or a local file with the extension .prtf with Report Designer.

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