When you select Properties from the popup menu of the Scripts Explorer, a dialog appears giving you access to all the key information of a Script. This is very useful when you are looking for a Script but have forgottem its name or location. The use of the term Script Properties could be confused with ScriptLine Properties, but it was decided to use it anyways, in this limited case, in analogy with the Windows Explorer.

               

The aim of the Script Properties dialog was to provide as much information about the selected Script … without any wait (otherwise you might as well just open the Script and see it all). For this reason the information presented is limited to that contained in the Scripts tables. Any lookup access to the Q++ Data tables would have slowed down the display of the properties.

 

To give you an example, the number of Holidays Sets for each of the a-e-i-o-u-Holidays is displayed quickly because the lists of Holidays Sets ID's are stored in the Script tables. However displaying the actual names of the Holidays Sets would have been too slow because it would have entailed doing a look-up into the Holidays Sets table to find out, for example, that Holidays Set ID=21036 was "Muslim Holidays".

 

With that in mind, the Script Properties displayed at the top are self-explanatory. The Structure TreeView at the bottom left displays schematically what ScriptLines are contained in the Script. Note that the number of pages is not included anywhere since this recursive calculation is one of the most time consuming design-time processes. The Related Files list allows you to see the files used in the "QXD File" and "Grid Template" properties of the QxdPages and DiaryGridLines ScriptLines, respectively. If you select one of the elements of that list :

 

 

 

Finally, you can use the PRINT button to printout the essential properties of the selected Script.

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Topic 108067 updated on 17-Oct-01 Topic URL: http://www.qppsupport.net/webhelp/index.html?viewingandprintingscriptproper.htm