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Defining formatted field selections

The Selection Criteria Menu lets you access the fours components of selection criteria:

OPTIONS

Control selection based on record counts

GLOBAL

Define and edit global variables, which allows you to set indicators and save data values into variables within formatted Selection Criteria; these variables can then be compared as part of the Selection Criteria conditions. 

FORMATTED

Use record layout to define tests for record data

UNFORMATTED

Define tests for record data without using layouts (by specifying location, length, operator, and data for each field to be tested).

In this example, you are going to define 3 tests with formatted selection criteria. Criteria Menu option 2 lets you access the Formatted Selection Criteria screen.

Selection Criteria Menu Screen

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Steps:

  1. Type 2 (Formatted Criteria) in the OPTION field.
  2. Type SELECT BACK ORDERED PARTS in the Member list description field.
  3. Press Enter.

 

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