Startup

'Tips for developers working within the Sysgem Enterprise Manager (SEM) environment'.

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Understanding the "Startup" page in the SEM Development Interface

Startup Page

This section describes the features available to the SEM Developer for editing the 'Startup' page in a display contained in a SEM library.

The start-up page is displayed as soon as a display window is invoked from the SEM "Selection" pane. It gives the programmer the opportunity to prompt for start-up parameters, e.g. for filtering the data that is about to be displayed, and it gives the user the opportunity to specify which SEM Agents should be used to gather the displayed data.

The following screen is used to define the characteristics of a Display Start-up Window.

• Help Test - Enter either plain text or HTML help text in this field. On the startup window there is a help button (shown with a "?" icon). When this button is pressed, the content of this field is displayed to the user to provide information / advice for the start-up prompts.

• Field Definitions - Use the "Add" icon to add new fields to the "Start-up" window. For the details of an input field see the Field Definitions page.

• Initialization Script - This script is written in Perl. It is run immediately before the Start-up window is displayed and is used to preset values into the fields of the Start-up window. See the use of this script in the examples contained in the SAcM Account Manager Module. See also the variables available to the initialization script in the Startup: Initialise page.