Forms-Based Application Development Tools User Guide > Part 2: Vision > Creating Frames > Create New Frames
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Create New Frames
You use the Application Flow Diagram Editor to create new frames for an application. The following list summarizes the procedure used to create frames. For detailed instructions and illustrations, see Create a New Frame.
To create a new frame
1. Specify the frame's position in the application flow diagram, relative to the current frame.
The positions of the frames determine the order in which the user can call them. You can create frames as peers of the current frame or, in some cases, as children of the current frame. Only Menu, Append, Browse, and Update frames can have children that are displayed in the application flow diagram.
2. Indicate the frame type.
The frame's type determines the operations that the user can perform on the frame. For a description of each frame type, see Frame Types.
3. Specify the menu item text that calls the frame.
This text appears on the menu of the parent frame that calls the frame you are creating.
4. Enter a description of the frame.
This description appears on any Menu frames that call the new frame. It also appears in the code and on the form that Vision generates and in various Vision windows.
5. For Append, Browse, and Update frames, designate the database tables to use for the frame's visual query.
Vision uses the tables when it creates the default frame definition. Read Specifying Tables before you create any Append, Browse, or Update frames.
6. For frames with types other than Menu, Append, Browse, and Update, define the frame as described in Defining Frames without Visual Queries.
Last modified date: 11/09/2022