Refreshing Pages

Click the Refresh button on a page to force processing on the application server to determine which fields have changed since the last transmission and to run processing logic that is associated with those changes.

Users can also refresh by pressing the alt-0 hot key, which keeps the cursor in the same field when the system displays the page. You can refresh at any time during data entry to enable an expert user to:

• Update related display field values for data that is already entered.

• Recalculate totals and balances.

• Provide defaults that are based on data that was entered previously on the page.

• Validate the data that has been entered on the page so far.

• Invoke any Hide, UnHide, Gray, or UnGray PeopleCode that is associated with specific fields.

Note:

The Refresh button does not refresh the page from the database. It does cause a server trip so that any deferred PeopleCode changes can be processed. If no deferred changes were made or the deferred changes do not cause any errors or other changes on the page, then clicking Refresh has no effect. The user might think that nothing happened. Fields on derived work records are not updated if the user clicks the Refresh button.