Creating a note

About this task

To create a note:

Procedure

  1. Click the Notes button in a Component-Definition window.
    The Notes window appears, as the following figure shows.
    Figure 1: The Notes window

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  2. Type the descriptive text in the Notes text box.
  3. Click OK to store the note and return to the Component-Definition window.

    When you select the component, the note text is displayed in the Notes area.

Results

If you do not change a note, click Cancel instead of OK.

For example, the note created in the Notes window is associated with the authors format. The next time you go to the Record Formats window and select authors, ipload displays the note text, as the following figure shows.
Figure 2: The Record Formats window with notes text

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The ipload utility stores the information that you type in the note table window of the onpload database. For a description of the note table, see The note table in the onpload database.