Guidelines to help avoid unwanted truncation or overlapping of data on forms are discussed below.
When designing a form, keep in mind:
Limits of a page’s usable width and length are defined by the TERM command.
Justification and column width in the Attribute Definition items for each attribute affect the way data appears on forms.
Null-value controlling attributes can affect the appearance of the data.
Null-value attributes translated from another file with the TFILE correlative may affect the appearance of the data.
The system reserves space for the default heading, or for headings and footings defined as part of the forms generation statement.
Positioning the data on a set of forms is verified using the A option, as described in Aligning the Printer.
The following topics are presented in this section:
Coordinating Justification and Column Width Fields
Using Controlling and Dependent Attributes
See Also
Generating Forms with INFO/ACCESS
Forms, Items, Pages, and Subpages