Creating the Advanced Attributes Dialog Box

Now we will continue on to create the dialog box.

  1. Right-click the Forms category in the User metaclass and select New to create a new form.
  2. Enter Advanced Teradata Attributes in the Name box and select Dialog Box in the type list. Note that additional tools appear in the Form tab toolbar.
  3. Click the Extended Attribute tool in the palette, select the following attributes, and then click OK to add them to the form:

  4. Click the Group Box tool to create a group box control and name it Journal. Then drag the Journal, AfterJournal, and DefaultJournalTable extended attributes into the group box.
  5. Click the Form entry in the controls tree and enter 140 in the Label Space box to ensure that all the controls are aligned. Then click Preview.

  6. You cannot test launching the dialog box in preview mode, so click OK to save your changes and close the Resource Editor. Then, create a user, open its property sheet, select the Teradata tab, and click the Advanced button to launch the dialog box: