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The RPMS environment evolved from different development efforts at different sites. Now, individual applications and their integration is very complex. The RPMS Programming Standards and Conventions (SAC), developed and maintained by the Standards and Conventions Committee, contains policies, procedures, and notes to guide maintenance and development. There are two extensions to the SAC that give additional guidance-- the SAC Developer's Handbook (new resource for the development of RPMS applications, including developers' tools) and the RPMS Documentation Style Guide (new resource providing RPMS documentation guidance). The first document below is the SAC approval letter, followed by the SAC, Developers' Handbook, and then the Documentation Style Guide.

RPMS Programming Standards and Conventions – December 2006 [PDF 568 k]
Revised SAC with new GUI Standards. See changes pages for details.

SAC Developers’ Handbook – December 2006 [PDF 828 k]
New resources of policies and procedures for development and certification of RPMS applications. Contains large developers’ tools section.

RPMS Documentation Style Guide - September 2005 [PDF 408 k]
This document provides documentation guidance for developers and technical writers who create documentation for RPMS applications.

 

Requests for Exemptions from Programming SAC
If an individual identifies the need for an exemption from the SAC for a given package, a request must be made to the SACC either via written notification using the form below. Exemption requests should be submitted as early as possible in the development cycle.

SAC Exemption: Word (47 k) or PDF (32 k)

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