Hi Osie,

As far as I can see the three letter abbreviations represent the start page that is active at startup of the IDF, as defined in the Presentation Preferences (menu Utilities > Preferences > Presentation).

• MOB = Mobile
• WEB = Web
• CON = Desktop
• ASS = Integration

And I'm not sure what HISTORY is used for, but it seems that it matches the list of the Quick Navigation drop-down in the component editor. But this might also be a coincidence.

Not really sure if this is at all useful outside the context of the the IDF start page.

I hope this (somehow) helps.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Hello Daniel

I thought it might be something like that... but oddly I have MOB when I am working with frms...

HISTORY also seems to disappear after the session.

There is a little anomaly which is that I have a lower case 'user' and uniface does not seem to allow lower case users and shortcuts, but it still stores the record; it just wont read it.  I have a workaround to get it to work with a database trigger to update USCUT to uppercase.  This works fine.

However, uniface does not trigger the delete shortcut with a lower case user, even if a lower case and/or upper case user exists in the database.

The result is the standard delete shortcut will not work for lower case user.  No biggie...

Oracle

v9.7

Thanks

Osie

As said, the module depends on what is selected in the Presentation Preferences. It hereby does not matter what the user has selected on the start page during the current session (e.g. switched to Desktop to change a form). I don't know what the idea was behind this, but the colleague who has implemented this is not around anymore.

And I've never really checked what happens with the HISTORY record, But when I check this in my environment here then the record is still there after I've closed the IDF. No idea.

But I've seen the issue with the lowercase user name before. It seems that up until version 9.3 the user name was stored in lowercase and since version 9.4 it's in uppercase. The workaround is, as you've mentioned, to change the user name in the USCUT table to uppercase.

All this, however, belongs into a museum now, I'm afraid, since Uniface 9 is not supported anymore and the USCUT table is not used anymore by the version 10 IDE. Sorry.

Regards,
Daniel