Initializing help system before first use

Setting Up Initial Content of the Record List

Now that we have created our resource limits table, we need to set up the initial content of the resource and limit values used to contain our results when running our application.
  1. Add two variables localInitWoodLimit and localInitMachineTimeLimit to the homepage. Both variables should have a data-type of Record and a record definition of ResourceLimits_rec.
  2. Add a Preparation (which is an action that executes when the page loads) to the homepage and double-click on it to open its flow.
  3. Drag an Assignment action from the toolbar into the flow, and use it to set the Resource and Limit values for localInitWoodLimit and localInitMachineTimelimit as shown above.
  4. Add an 'if' statement to the flow with the condition of localResourceLimits.Empty. For the 'true' path, add two ListAppend actions to append localInitWoodLimit and localInitMachineTimeLimit to localResourceLimits, resulting in the following:
Parent Topic Creating the Input and Output Form Pages