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Introduction
With our screen created let us now look at editing the content to better suit our needs. Ensure you are in design mode with the screen unlocked.
Edit the Card Container
Adding a Field
We will now learn how to add content from the palette to a card container.
- On the
- With your Companies List screen open, in the palette navigate to the Form Field - By Data Type section.
- Expand the section and holding the shift key drag Date over the Role field.
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- Name the field DOB. This will associate it to the underlying data.
- If you DOB field does not appear where you want it, use the layer section to move it to the right location. You will need to hold the Shift key to drop the DOB inside another component or move out of an existing component.
- This type of field of editing field is not really suitable for our design, so we will switch it for a text field to display the data.
- Right-click on the DOB field.
- Select Change Template.
- A dialog window opens with the available alternatives. Select
Dynamic - Text
and click Select Template.
- The screen is updated, but we need to tell the field the type of data it is receiving. In the properties for DOB, set Type to be
Date
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Adding a Button
Next we will update the action buttons for the employee.
- Select the middle phone button.
- Right click and select Delete Selected Objects.
- Follow the prompts.
- Now from the Buttons - Additional section of the Palette, holding shift drag LinkedIn in between the two existing buttons or the Buttons area in the layers.
- Name it
LinkedIn
. - To get the button where we want it, in the layer section drag the LinkedIn buutton to the end of the Buttons:
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- The styling is slightly different, so we will correct this:
- Click on the email button and its properties open.
- Drag the tab header to the left.
- Click on the LinkedIn button and ensure its properties are on the right.
Add the Crud buttons
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About Tables → Views → Grids
Adding Data as a Grid
- The Grid
- Use Custom Data Range
- The View
- Periods
- Inheriting the period from the table.
- The Table
- Table Period.
- Combined filtering
- Does the grid setting override the view????
- CRUD Buttons
- Adding Crud buttons after prompt.
- Attributes
- Adding attributes
- Relational Attributes
- Reordering Attributes
- Hiding Attributes
- Conditionally Hiding Attributes.
- Styling a Grid
- Basics
- Bold Text
- Available Styling i.e. default styles.
- Conditional Formatting Background Colour
- Cell and Row.
- Removing the Title
- Labelling and double header?
- Link to in depth How To guide
- Basics
- In grid editing, link to how to.
Adding Data as a Card Container
- The Container
- Table
- View
- Filtering
- The Cards
- Design and App mode display.
- Adding filters dynamically
- Changing the backing attributes
Adding a Chart
- Simple Setup
- Colour Maps
- Link to setting up more chart types.
Finding Layouts and Components
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It can be very useful to find a layout, component or container. There are two ways to do this:
Using Layers
The Layers pane is expandable from the left of the screen canvas. Select an item:
- on the canvas to highlight it in the Layers pane
- in the Layouts pane to highlight it on the canvas.
If the layer section is not visible click
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Using Find in Repository
Right-click any item on an unlocked screen and select
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To check whether a component is shared with multiple applications, open its properties and check the Parent Details section, which names the application or package to which the component belongs. For example a component that is shared between several applications has a package as its parent; see Package. |
Styles
explanation
Style Hierarchy
- Application Styles
- Shared Style
- Local Styles
- Formatting Rules
- Overriding Styles Best Practice
- Clearing Styles
Creating Screens from the Home page
- Options
- Templates
- Complete
- Blank
- Screen Options
- Floating
- Size
- Open Maximised
- Creating from an ERD
- Creating from a Workflow
- Available Unused Actions.
Data Type and Formatting
- Date
- Date-Time
- Numbers