Welcome to “Tabbed Screens in T24” learning unit.

This learning unit will enable you

to learn tabbed screens in T24.

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 In this learning module you will be taught about tabbed screens in t24. At the end of
this learning unit you will be able to ,

1. Analyse the need for tabbed screens

2. Create tabbed screens in T24

3. Launch tabbed screens in T24

4. Pass selection criteria using Enquiry Mapping

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 You will now learn about Tabbed screens in T24.

1. Tabbed screens provide a better user interface

2. Tabbed screens are used to group a set of enquiries and versions together

3. The grouped enquiries and versions are displayed on a single browser window

4. Each tab will be linked to an enquiry or a version in T24

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 Why do you need tabbed screens ?

You would be familiar with the T24 browser screen. Assume that you want to create an
account for a customer and using that account you need to input an FT. In order to
accomplish this task you will use two different applications namely, ACCOUNT and
FUNDS.TRANSFER. You may open the application screen using the command line.
When you do so the application screen will be opened in a different browser window.
Again when you invoke the FT application, it opens a new browser window. Is there a
way to group these task windows into a single browser screen?

1,2 Tabbed screens are used to group enquiries and versions in a single browser
window in T24. This enables easy navigation to the user.

3,4. The user may access these applications by just performing a click action on the
corresponding tab. Every time when the user needs to invoke an application he
need not use the command line or the default menu in T24. Thereby tabbed
screens provide a better user interface to work with.

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 Here you see a website designed with different components. You can see the various
tabs used. The user can easily navigate using these tabs. Tabs just act like links to
different pages here and it is easy for the end user to navigate across the pages.

For example you would have seen the tabs with IE 7 . When you have multiple web
pages open, each page is linked to a tab. You can navigate to each page in the
window by using these tabs.

Do you think a similar tabbed screen can be designed in T24 ?

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 You can very well design a similar tabbed screen in T24.

The screen-shot displayed here is a tabbed screen designed in T24 to view the
customer details. Here you have four tabs and each tab is linked to an enquiry in T24.
You can click on each tab to view the customer related data.

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 This task aims at teaching you how to create a tabbed screen in T24. The requirement
for the task is as follows,

1. Create a tabbed screen to group different tasks in a single window

1.1 The first tab should let you to create account records

1.2 The second tab used to search account records

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 The screen designer utility found under the admin menu can be used to design the
tabbed screen. The application used to create tabbed screen is
EB.TABBED.SCREEN. ID to the application can be any alphanumeric text.

The tabbed screen to be designed will have two tabs. Lets have a look into the fields
now,

TITLE – Here you will specify a title for your tabbed screen

TYPE – The field TYPE decides the content of your tab. A tab can be linked to an
enquiry or it could be a contract screen or it could be a composite screen. The
available options in this field are:

ENQ – Option ENQ denotes that the content is an enquiry

TXN – TXN denotes that the content is a contract screen
URL – URL denotes that the item is an URL
COS – COS option denotes that the item is a composite screen ( EG., A valid ID of
an EB.COMPOSITE.SCREEN record )
MENU – This options denoted that the content could be a submenu(Eg., A valid ID
of a HELPTEXT.MENU record)

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 The user can use the first tab to create account records. So this is a transaction wherein you
can launch a version. So choose the TXN option for the field TYPE

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 A simple title for each tab can also be specified.
TITLE - Here you will specify the title for each tab in the field TITLE.

A version should be launched when the user clicks on the first tab. Should the tab be
linked to version ?
Remember, each tab in your screen is linked to an enquiry or a version in T24. So
where should the link be specified?
SOURCE – In the field SOURCE you either specify the application or the enquiry that
is to be invoked for launching the tabbed screen. Therefore in the field SOURCE
specify the id of the version.

Multi-value the TYPE field to specify the data for the second tab.

TYPE.2 – Choose the ENQ option here to launch enquiry

SOURCE.2 – In the next multi-value of SOURCE field specify the enquiry name.

Authorise the record created in EB.TABBED.SCREEN

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 1. Launch the tabbed screen using the command TAB. In the command line specify
TAB followed by the id of the tabbed screen. Or from the Screen Designer window
choose the Launch option from the drop down for TRG.ACC.TAB in the List of
tabbed Screens

2. You could see the launched tabbed screen. You can click on the first tab to launch
the version

3. An account record can be created by clicking on the new deal icon.

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 The second tab fetches information about account records. You may also specify the
selection criteria the first time you launch the enquiry and hence forth the selection
criteria will be cached automatically when you launch the tabbed screen . Now isn’t
that simpler to create and search account records using the tabbed screen rather than
using the command line?

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 This task aims at teaching enquiry mapping in tabbed screens. The requirement for
the task is as follows,

1.Create a tabbed screen to group various tasks in a single window

1.1 The first tab should let you to create account records

1.2 The second tab used to search account records

1.3 Third tab can be used to fetch information about all accounts of a
particular customer

1.4 The fourth tab fetches information about account balances

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 You can see the different tasks that are to be grouped. Create tabbed screens to
group these tasks into a single browser window.

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 Enquiry Mapping is always done with respect to your first enquiry. Now this mapping is
done using two fields – SELECT.FROM and SELECT.TO

SELECT.FROM – In this field specify the field name based on which you want to
retrieve data. The value of CUSTOMER.CODE is passed from the first enquiry to the
other enquiry.
Important Note : The field name should be part of your selection fields of the first
enquiry.

SELECT.TO – In the field SELECT.TO specify the destination field to which you map
the data. The field MB.CUSTOMER.ID belongs to the current enquiry. Therefore you
map a field from the first enquiry to a field in the next enquiry.

SELECT.FROM is multi-value field so you can map multiple fields among the
enquiries.

The last tab is used to fetch the working balance information. In the last multi-value
set, the value from CUSTOMER.CODE field is mapped to the field
CUSTOMER.CODE in the current enquiry. The value of CUSTOMER.CODE is
retrieved from the parent enquiry.

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 After creating the tabbed screen, execute it from the command line using the TAB
command. You can see the first tab using which you can create accounts.

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 The second tab executes an enquiry to fetch account details. Specify the
CUSTOMER.CODE in the selection criteria box. The user executes the enquiry to
view all the accounts that belong to the customer.

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 You can click on the third tab to view all the primary and joint accounts of the same
customer. The customer id is automatically populated by the field in the first enquiry.

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 The same customer id is also passed to the last enquiry of the tabbed screen. Here
you see the working balance of the various accounts that belong to the same
customer.

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 The second component of the tabbed screen is an enquiry that fetches the account
details. Lets say that the user wants to retrieve account details of a specific customer.
You very well knew that this can be done using the dynamic selection criteria box of
the enquiry.

Now in tabbed screens the runtime selection criteria can be passed from the command
line also. Here the user wishes to pass the runtime parameter to the second tab of the
tabbed screen . When the user launches the tab from the command line he has to
specify the tabbed screen name along with the tab number and the field name with the
value. For example here it is specified as ‘TAB TRG.ACC.TAB 2 CUSTOMER EQ
130059’ where TRG.ACC.TAB is the tabbed screen id. The number 2 specifies that
you are invoking the second tab. Finally the field name and its value are passed as
CUSTOMER EQ 130059.

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 Note: In order to pass the field values from the first enquiry, the fields should be
specified as part of the SELECTION.FIELDS of the first enquiry.

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 1. True

2. True

3. False

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 1. SCREEN.DESIGNER is used for creating versions, tabbed screens and
composite screens in T24

2. The application used to create tabbed screen is EB.TABBED.SCREEN. ID to

the application can be any alphanumeric text

3. TAB command is used to launch a tabbed screen

4. Fields of EB.TABBED.SCREEN:

4.1 SOURCE – In the field SOURCE you either specify the application or the
enquiry that is to be invoked for launching the tabbed screen

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 1. CONTENT.TYPE – The field CONTENET.TYPE decides the content of your tab

2. A tab can be linked to an enquiry or a contract screen or a composite screen

3. The available options of CONTENT.TYPE field are

3.1 ENQ – ENQ denotes that the content is an enquiry

3.2 TXN – TXN denotes that the content is a contract screen
3.3 URL – URL denotes that the item is an URL
3.4 COS – COS option denotes that the item is a composite screen

4. Selection criteria can be passed from one enquiry to another. This is known as
Enquiry Mapping

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 You have learnt tabbed screens in T24. You will now be able to,

1. Analyse the need for tabbed screens

2. Create tabbed screens in T24

3. Launch tabbed screens in T24

4.Pass selection criteria using Enquiry Mapping

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