You can use the App Studio Maintain Data language more effectively
if you are familiar with its standards, including:
- When to use
uppercase and lowercase characters.
- When to spell
out keywords in full.
- How to name
fields, functions, and other procedure components.
- Which words
to avoid using as names of procedure components.
- What sort of
components you can include in a procedure.
- How to continue
a command onto additional lines.
- How to terminate
command syntax.
- How to include
comments in a procedure.
Data source descriptions and App Studio procedures are not part
of the Maintain Data language and are subject to different rules.
The language rules for data source descriptions are discussed in
the Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language manual.
The language rules for App Studio procedures are discussed in the Developing Reporting Applications manual.