Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Using graphic relationship display

You can use the GRAPHIC primary command to receive a graphic display of related tables. The graph includes both AR and RI relationships and both parent and dependent tables for any table involved in the relationship.

The following figure shows a graphical relationship display for the DEPT table. The current table is highlighted. You can scroll up/down and left/right to display information that is not visible.

If a table has an asterisk (*) next to it, it displays somewhere else in the display; that is, it is related to more than one table. If a table displays in the graph more than once, its dependent tables only appear the first time.

Graphical Relationship Display

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Receiving an Option List

From a Graphical Relationship Display, you can tab to any table name and press Enter to receive an Option List (see the following figure). It provides a list of options that you can perform for the selected table.

The items that display in the list are dependent on the selected table.

Option List for Table EMP

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  • Display Relationship Information: Displays the Relationship Information window. See Relationship Information Window.
  • Go to Dependent Detail. Positions the cursor at the first occurrence of the table in the graph. This option will not appear if at the first occurrence of a table.
  • Go to Dependent of table name. Positions the cursor at the first occurrence of the dependent of the specified table name. This option will not appear if there are no dependents for the selected table.

Related topics

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