Defining Browse Frames
Browse frames let the user retrieve records from tables in the database. The user cannot perform any operations on these records.
Define a Browse frame to control the ways in which the user can retrieve records by using the Visual Query Editor to specify the following items:
Column Sort Order
You can specify the order in which to sort the records in the Master table and Detail table.
Query Restrictions
You can enter qualifications to restrict the records that the frame displays to the user.
Qualification Processing
You can specify whether to allow users to enter query restrictions on the records that the frame retrieves.
Next Master Menu item
You can specify whether to display only the first Master table record (and any corresponding Detail table records) that satisfies the frame's query, or to have Vision generate a Next menu item that lets the user retrieve multiple Master table records.
The following figure shows the visual query window for a Browse frame:
You specify the column sort order and query restrictions and control for Browse frames as described in
Defining Update Frames. Qualification Processing and Next Master Menuitem specifications are discussed in the next section.
For information about controlling window clearing on Browse frames that allow user qualifications, see
Defining Update Frames.
