This will allow you to store General information which may be retrieved in your Cobwebb Design using the Exit Program GETGEND. This can be found from the Cobwebb Main Menu - PPD File Maintenance - Work with directory - Option 3.

The Cobwebb General Directory can be a useful place to store a list of libraries that you wish to be used in your PPD in order to access data from files on the Server. An Exit Program has been supplied for you to retrieve this information and Add or Remove the libraries from the Library List - see COBGENLIBL - versions after v6.2.61.

Note: If you wish to restrict users to only maintaining certain records then, from Cobwebb Server versions after v6.2.82, you can use the WRKGEND command to supply the Filters for Key 1, 2 & 3 as parameters to prevent users from maintaining entries except those that match the supplied filter. The General Directory is often used to direct output from a Cobwebb Design and by using the filters you could restrict users to only changing those entries that relate to their output.

Position to

Enter one or more characters from which to start the display. This entry is not case sensitive.

Filter by

If you wish to reduce the list of entries displayed then you can use this filter option. You may enter information in any of the three key fields and this will be used to find an exact match (excluding case) and display only those options. If you leave any of the Filter by key fields blank then that portion of the key will not be checked. This means that if you had say a Customer Number in Key 3 for various entries you could enter this in the Filter by Key 3 and just see entries relating to that customer. For example entering "abc001" would return "abc001",  "Abc001", "ABc001", "ABC001" etc. Versions after v6.2.61

Pressing F5 will clear your filter and re-display all records.

Options

Select one of the following options:

Entries

Key 1 - 3

At least one Key value is required to store your general information against but you may use up to three.

Function Keys