SATGUI Glossary

action

An action consists of a screen and/or a process.


group

Identifies menubar option group. Groups can be used to activate menu options depending on the value of the current group. The current group is set using the setGroup command.


literal

Command parameters can be literal or variable. Literal command parameters have fixed names. Variable command parameters identify actions or validations.


name format

Item name must conform to the name format. Upper/lower case alpha characters (A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_) and colon (:) are valid. Spaces are not allowed.

The following rules are applied:-

Example:

If a button has the name add:Add_Disk


prefix

Item name prefixes can be used for two purposes.

  1. Grouping items for validation.
  2. Having more than one item on the screen with the same display name.


state

The state of the GUI can be either disabled (Access "1") or normal (Access "2"). The state is set according to the access defined for the action in the profile associated with the user.

By default all modifiable display items are set to disabled when the access is set to "1". All of the modifiable display items can override this behavior.

The state system allows the same screen to be used for both read-only and update users.


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