Assume that you want to create installation files to add a hypothetical
office service to the
Information Center Facility. The
service prompts you for the name of a person in your company and then
finds the room and floor number for the person. You want the service
to have the following characteristics:
- Users can select it as option 2, on the panel, Information Center Facility - Office
Services.
- All applications for the service are in English.
- Users see the following description on the menu where they select
the service:
Find a person's room and floor number.
- Administrators see the following description on the list of applications:
Locate service
- The help text that users see when they select the DESCRIBE option
on panel, Information Center Facility -
Office Services, is:
Select this option to find a person's room and floor number.
The service prompts you for the person's last name followed
by the first name or initial.
- The service is defined by the function application, ABCLOC, and
invoked by the command %LOCATE.
- The tutorial for the service starts with panel ABCLOC00.
- The service has only one shared variable, FRMTOFF, associated
with it. The description of the variable is:
Room and floor number format used by office services
The
value of the variable is room/fl. This variable will be used
by other office services that you plan to write in the future.