Alpha Jargon

When a new glossary entry, or F1 help, is applied to an item, the developer changes the alpha description because it is the title of the F1 help. In these instances, a developer would apply alpha jargon.

Alpha jargon can apply to individual forms or entire systems. For instance, when a data dictionary item is used in the same context throughout an entire system, the developer would apply system-level alpha jargon. When an item is used in a different context in only one form, the developer would apply form-level alpha jargon.

In this example, the data item AN8 has both system-level jargon (identified by 12, 15, 19, and so on in the Product Code Reporting column) and form-level jargon (identified by W03013B, W0401A, W0474N3B, and so on in the ScrnRpt Name column) applied.