# Screen field attributes

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Mainframe-Integration, ApplinX\
**Created:** [April 23, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431 "2010-04-23T03:28:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ErikL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@ErikL](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/ErikL)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431/1 "2010-04-23T03:28:18Z")

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I’m in the process of upgrading our application from version 4 to version 8. In the old version, we used the path wrapper to output a variety of the field attributes from the screen such as background color, foreground color and is protected.

In the new version the wrapper is done away with and it appears that it doesn’t play any part in the process to convert paths to path procedures. So now I’m looking at remapping those 3 field attributes for every field, for every screen. 😮

Is there any alternative to the manual process of creating an expression for each field and mapping each particular attribute to a procedure output field?

Any help or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Tanya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tanya](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Tanya)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431/2 "2010-04-27T13:18:35Z")

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Erik, could you please upload the files so we have an example to take a look on?

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**Author:** ![ErikL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@ErikL](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/ErikL)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431/3 "2010-04-28T03:26:35Z")

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Here’s the gxz from version 4.8.1.0024.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/screen-field-attributes/93431/4 "2021-04-02T14:58:24Z")

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