Handling Conditions

There are many times when it can be helpful to call a process, but only when a certain condition is true. As an example, we may want to restrict access to certain prompts on a screen if a person is not in a particular security group. This can be done by wrapping a condition around the SKIP process and then calling this wraparound process as the Process Before on each of the fields to be skipped.

There are three ways to handle a condition using SB+:

• The Process Definition - Conditional tool can be used to enter the process.
• A paragraph can be created with the Process Definition - Paragraph tool.
• A BASIC subroutine can be written.

While it is certainly an option, using a BASIC subroutine for this purpose is a bit drastic. Therefore, this section will focus on only the first two methods.

Using a Conditional Process
Using a Paragraph