Saving Definitions

To retain your changes, you must save the definition. You must name new definitions before you can save them.

To save a definition:

  1. Click the Save button on the toolbar or select either File, and then Save or File, and then Save As to save a definition.

    The Save and Save As commands save a single definition. Use the File, Save All command or the Save All toolbar button to save all open definitions at once.

  2. If you are saving a page or component, specify the language or market.

    For a page definition, the Language drop-down list box appears; for a component, the Market drop-down list box appears.

Definition Naming Conventions

When naming definitions, use the following guidelines:

  • Use only uppercase alphabetic characters (A–Z), numeric characters (0–9), or underscore (_). Other special characters, such as the em dash (—), dollar sign, number sign, question mark, and so on, are not permitted.

  • Names must begin with an alphabetic character.

  • Embedded spaces are not permitted.

    Instead, use an underscore.

  • Avoid using accented characters.

    Names containing these characters may not sort consistently, depending on workstation or locale settings, which results in problems during an upgrade.

  • System definitions such as records, fields, styles, and so on generally have a name and a label or description. Generally, you should use US-ASCII characters only for the definition name. Labels or descriptions, which appear to the user, can contain non-ASCII characters.

Note:

Existing Business Process and Business Process Map definitions may already contain mixed case characters. Nonetheless, newly created definition names must be all uppercase.