HOLD primary command

In Browse, View and Edit, the HOLD command sets a scrolling lock on one or more fields. In TABL display format, when scrolling left or right, held fields are fixed on the left in the order specified in the template. In non-structured SNGL mode, when scrolling up or down, held fields are fixed at the top in the order specified in the template. You can remove scrolling locks with the FREE editor primary command or by using the H prefix command in the template editor.

Syntax


1 HOLD
1 fieldref
1 fldname
1 RESET
fieldref
A single field reference (for example, #1), a range (for example, #2-#5), or a list of single field references/ranges separated by spaces (for example, #1 #4 #6-#7). A single field specification is #n; n is a positive integer and cannot exceed the number of fields in the template being processed.
fldname
The name of a field in the template, which is optionally preceded by the pound symbol (#). Use #RESET to avoid any syntactical ambiguity with command keywords.

Availability

The HOLD command is available on most editor panels. In particular, to allow you to modify how the data is displayed, it can be used in the following panels:

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