FormGroup part

An EGL FormGroup part serves two purposes:
You do not declare a FormGroup part as if you were declaring a record or dataItem. Instead, your program accesses a FormGroup part (and the related forms) only if the following statements apply:

A program can include no more than two FormGroup parts; and if two are specified, one must be a help group. A help group contains one or more help forms, which are read-only forms that give information in response to a user keystroke.

Forms are available at run time only if you generate the FormGroup part. The generated output for Java™ is a class for the FormGroup part and a class for each Form part. The generated output for a COBOL program is as follows:

At preparation time, each of those entities is processed into a separate runtime load module. The EGL runtime handles the interaction of your generated program and the form-specific code.

Form parts cannot be generated separately.

Related concepts
Form part
References to parts
Editing form groups with the EGL form editor

Related tasks
Creating an EGL formGroup part

Related reference
Use declaration

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