Define Standard Forms

The columns displayed on this tab are the columns you defined on the tab Axes. Here you define the form column structure.

Procedure

  1. On the Maintain menu, click Form Structure/Define. The Form Structure - Define window opens. The Define tab is displayed. Select the form you want to work with, or create a new form. (See the Define tab). Go to the Column Definition tab.
  2. On the Column Definition tab, click the New button to define a new column definition template.
  3. In the Code text box, enter a code of maximum four alphanumeric characters (a-z, 0-9, -, _) for the column definition template.
  4. In the Name - Group and Name - Local text boxes, enter a description of the column definition template in the group language and local language, maximum 50 alphanumeric characters.
  5. The column definition displays several columns, all depending on which dimensions you defined on the Axes tab in the Column Definition list box. For each dimension and additional settings column, enter the code, formula or name you want to appear in the form.

    For more information, about available columns and how they are defined, see IBM Controller Dimensions.

  6. In the columns Name - Group and Name - Local, enter the names you want to use in the form unless you want to use the default names.
  7. Save the column definition. You can use it later to define other forms. Updating a column definition will update all the forms based on that column definition. To activate the column definition in the forms, you have to manually update the forms when defining the layout.
  8. Click the Excel button to open the layout in Microsoft Excel.
    Note: If a column definition is changed, all the forms based on that definition will change and need to be updated. Use the Column Informationbutton to see information about in which form or forms a specific column definition is used.