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Sessions
Sessions are the building blocks of BAAN applications. Realistically speaking, the display, update, and print functions in BAAN are sessions.

A session is a combination of:

forms
objects
reports
a table (main table)
charts

A session can be activated from:

a menu
FILE/Run Program menu selection (GUI)
another session (as a subsession)
SPECIAL/Start Session menu selection from form two of the Maintain Session session

Maintaining Sessions

The purpose of the Maintain Sessions (ttadv1140m000) session is to define sessions by Package VRC.

Menu: BAAN IV Tools / Application Development / Maintenance
Session: Maintain Sessions (ttadv1140m000)

Important Fields

Standard Script
Program Script
Main Table
Start Option
Session Status
Main Session

From form 2 of the Maintain Sessions session, you can:

go to the Maintain Forms, Maintain Reports, Maintain Charts, Maintain Table Definitions, and Maintain Scripts subsessions by choosing one of the buttons on the lower left corner of the screen
execute the session that you are currently on by going to SPECIAL, Start Session

Session Naming Convention

To ensure easy recognition and good communication, sessions should be properly named by following certain conventions.

A session is identified by a combination of:

package
module
main table
type of session (The session types listed below are not the only possible values, but they are the most common ones.)
Session type 1 = maintain
Session type 4 = process
Session type 5 = display
main or sub-session
M = Main session
S = Sub-session
suffix (reserved for future use)

The following example shows how a particular form (tiitm0501m000) is broken down into these pieces of information:

Session: tiitm0501m000
ti: Manufacturing package
itm: Item Control module
0501: A combination of the 001 table and the session type. The session type, 5, is placed between the first and second digits of the table number.
m: Main session
000: Suffix

The 000 indicates no modifications have been made to the software.

Most sessions are named using these BAAN conventions but there are a few exceptions.