AFP Indexer

AFP Indexer lets you create page groups, define supplemental pages, and create indexes in AFP files. When you view an AFP file that contains page groups and indexes, you can navigate in the file to find pages containing specific index values.

AFP Indexer can also create a resource group file for each production AFP file. This file can help you print the archived AFP file at a later date with the original resources.

In this section:

  1. Page groups
    AFP Indexer lets you organize a large AFP file into smaller, uniquely identifiable units, called page groups.
  2. Supplemental pages
    AFP Indexer lets you define pages in an AFP file as supplemental pages. Supplemental pages are those pages that you do not want included in page groups, such as header and trailer pages, separator pages, or any page that should be excluded from a customer statement.
  3. Index tags
    The AFP Indexer mode of AFP Visual Environment lets you index data values that are consistently present in the same location in each page group or on a supplemental page. Index tags define the data values on a page. (Index tags are called Tag Logical Elements (TLEs) in the AFP architecture.)
  4. Resource group files
    The IndexAFP command can create a resource group file that contains all the AFP resources that a production AFP file references.
Parent topic: Overview