Creating a label

Use the Label Properties window of the Create a New Infor LN Software Component wizard to initialize and create a new label in your local workspace. This window is the wizard's second dialog box.

For more general information about the wizard, see Create a New Infor LN Software Component wizard.

Note: Before you use the new label in an LN application, compile the label.

Creating a label

  1. Start the wizard and select the component type.
    1. Start the wizard.
    2. Specify the software development activity for which you want to create the new label. Select Label as the component type.
    3. To go to the Label Properties window, click Next.
  2. Specify the required label properties.

    In the Label Properties window, specify this information:

    Name
    This is a text value. The label name must start with the code of the package in which the label is used.
    Description
    The actual text of the label. You create the label to apply this text in various situations.
    Context
    The context indicates in which situations you will use the label.
    You can only create labels with one of these contexts:
    • General Use
    • Form Commands
    • External Use
    • Cascading Item on Button
    Labels with other contexts are generated automatically when you create the corresponding software components. For example, when you create a session, the Create a New Infor LN Software Component wizard stores the session description you entered in a label with context Session Description.

    All fields of the Label Properties window are mandatory. After you created the label, you cannot change its name and context anymore. You can change the description. As a default, the label type is General Use.

    For more information about the label properties, see the online help of the Label Editor.

  3. Create the label.

    To create the label in your local workspace and to exit the wizard, click Finish. The created label appears in the Activity Explorer view of the Application perspective.

    The label is created in the primary language of the application.

    You can now edit the new label in the Label Editor.

Note: A new label with one variant is created. The specified description becomes the description of the label and the description of the label variant. In the label editor, you can only edit the latter.
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