Opening a new file with Screen Designer

If you want to create a new DDS display file and work with it in Screen 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.

What happens next, depends on the view from where you started the action. If you started it from the Remote Systems view, the Remote Systems LPEX Editor opens. Close it and open the member with Screen Designer by right-clicking on it and selecting Open With > Screen Designer. If you started the action from the i Project Navigator view, the editor that opens depends on the preference setting for the member type. The default here is also the Remote Systems LPEX Editor, but you can change it to Screen Designer. See Making Screen Designer the default editor for DDS display files on how to do that.

When the new member is open in Screen Designer, it is empty, as you would expect. There are no records yet and the Outline view only contains the file entry. Now, you can add records and fields, and define new screens the same way as you would when modifying an existing file.

Note: A local file with the extension .dspf can also be opened with Screen Designer.

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