Understanding Secondary Pages

Secondary pages are pages that you access through another page, usually by clicking a link or push button. Secondary pages are ideal for entering and updating data that is supplemental to the data on the primary page or data that is common to and can be accessed from multiple primary pages. While a secondary page might sometimes appear as just another page to the user at runtime, secondary pages have certain characteristics that are not shared with standard pages. For example:

• Secondary pages are not standalone pages that you access through the menu structure. You can only access a secondary page from its primary page; the primary page and the secondary page are associated by push button or link page controls.

• Secondary pages include OK and Cancel or Return buttons (or equivalent alternatives) so that the user can accept or discard input, dismiss the secondary page, and return to the primary page.

• Secondary pages display no component buttons, such as Save, Return to Search, and so on.