Indexing AFP files

In this section:

1. Creating page groups
   You can create page groups in AFP files. Page groups organize AFP files into smaller, uniquely identifiable units. When you create page groups, any existing page groups defined in the AFP file itself are not used.
2. Defining supplemental pages
   You can define pages in an AFP file as supplemental pages when you do not want to include them in page groups. For example, header and trailer pages, separator pages, and any page that should be excluded from a customer statement can be defined as supplemental pages.
3. Creating index tags
   You can create index tags in AFP files. When a file contains index tags, you can use an AFP viewer to navigate in the file to find specific data viewer to navigate in the file to find specific data. You can also use the index tag values in barcode data.
4. Working with page-level indexes
   Page-level index tags are defined on individual pages in a page group rather than within the page group.
5. Modifying or deleting AFP Indexer definitions
   After you create triggers and index tags for page groups, pages in page groups, and supplemental pages, you can modify or delete any of them.
6. Using existing page groups and index tags
   If page groups and index tags are defined in the AFP file instead of a AFP Visual Environment control file, you can choose whether to use the existing page groups in the AFP file and, if the page groups are nested, which level of page groups to use.
7. Editing text for triggers and index tags
   When you create or modify a trigger or an index tag, you can edit the text value. You can also edit the text value for existing index tags that are defined in the AFP file or the AFP Visual Environment control file.
8. Managing comments
   You can manage comments in the AFP Indexer portion of the AFP Visual Environment control file.