Developing and Debugging Your BPA Scripts

You may find it helpful to categorize the step types into two groups: those that involve some type of activity in the script area, and those that don't. The following step types cause activity in the script area: Height, Display text, Prompt user, Input data, Input Map, Set focus to a field. The rest of the step types are procedural and involve no user interaction. For debugging purposes, you can instruct the system to display text in the script area for the latter step types. Also note, for debugging purposes, you can display an entire data area (or a portion thereof) in the script area by entering %+...+% where ... is the name of the node whose element(s) should be displayed.

Please see the Examples of BPA Scripts for ideas that you can use when you create your own BPA scripts.