Focus Made Easy: A Complete Focus Handbook for Users and Programmers

Focus Made Easy: A Complete Focus Handbook for Users and Programmers, 1/e

Richard R. Taha, UC Berkeley

Published August, 1991 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This all-in-one reference provides a thorough introduction to Focus^®® report writer and to database design and file maintenance.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Computer Systems and Introduction to Focus.
2. The Focus Program Editor: TED.
3. Designing and Creating Databases in Focus.
4. Designing and Creating Reports with Focus.
5. Sorting, Group Totalling, Control Breaks, and Summarizing of Data.
6. Data Selection and Filtering.
7. Designing and Creating Report Headings, Footings, and Labels.
8. Customizing Reports.
9. Creating Work Fields in Focus with DEFINE and COMPUTE.
10. Advanced Features of the Focus Report Writer.
11. External File Processing and Other Advanced Features of Focus.
12. File Maintenance Using Batch Transactions.
13. Interactive File Maintenance with the PROMPT Command.
14. CRTFORM: Creating Customized Data Entry and Display Screens.
15. Complete Application Development with the Dialogue Manager.
16. Odds and Ends.
Appendices.