Tie the Functions Together (Setting Focus)

Many of the OcxBatch lists are inter-related. Selecting an item in one (parent) list may cause the view of other (child) lists to update. You can tie together several of the functional areas of the OcxBatch through a small amount of programming in the container. For example, when a batch is selected in the Batch Execution Schedule List, most of the other functional areas set their focus to correspond to the selected batch. Therefore, the Phase Execution Phase List can list the active phases for the batch selected in the Batch Execution Schedule List. This example is known as batch-centric focus setting. Functions can alternately set their focus based on a unit-centric model. In this case, there is less programming to connect the OcxBatch functional areas. Focus is set by using methods provided in each of the various functional areas.