The Screen Designer design page has two distinct modes for managing records and screens.
When Screen Designer is started, the Design records mode is selected allowing you to design individual records. The Design screens mode allows you manage screens, and associate records with screens
In both modes, a new record can be added by selecting either Standard Record or Subfile Record in the Palette and then clicking anywhere in the design area. Alternatively, palette items can be dragged onto the design area. For subfiles, both subfile record and subfile control record are added.
Records are created with the name RECORDn, subfiles as SFLn and subfile controls as CTLn, where n is a sequential number. Type over the name in the Properties view to give your record a meaningful name. New records are automatically added to a currently active screen.
To define a new screen, press the New button beside the list of screens. This creates a new screen with the name Untitled. Change the name to something meaningful by typing over the default name and pressing either the Apply button or the Enter key.
After defining a screen, you can add records to the screen to simulate which records will be displayed together when the application runs. To add an existing record to a screen, select the Records tab, select the desired record in the Excluded list and press the Add button. This moves the record from the Excluded list to the Included list. For subfiles, you only need to select either the subfile record or the subfile control record and press the Add button to associate both with the selected screen. Repeat the above steps to add additional records. If you want to add a large number of records to a screen, it might be faster to use the Add all button and then remove the records that do not belong to the screen. To remove a record, select it in the list of Included records and press the Remove button.