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Choose the control to create when dragging a field from the Data Access

Status: Accepted
by Todd Greve Employee on 06-10-2011 09:34 PM

When you drag a field from the data access panel in the BPM Designer it will automatically create a control on the form for you. Great! But, the String field could be desired as a Text Field, Drop Down, Radio Group or Attachment Clip. Likewise a memo field could become a List box or Memo field, and numeric field you may want this to be a Number of Currency field (or even checkbox) for example.

 

How about either

  1. Provide an option when dropping a single field to select the type of control to create for it
  2. An option once the field was created to change it to another field that uses the same data type (option on the context menu for example)

I think everyone would understand if the properties that don't make sense for the new control are wiped out ...

 

Thanks

Status: Accepted
Comments
by Ari Chopra Employee on 06-13-2011 11:33 AM

Agreed 100%.

 

Also a string field could be a dynamic (calculated) label field as well.

 

I imagine this as a pop-up window, similar to what you see when you select multiple BO fields and get a choice of grid or individual fields.

by Rob Vignerot Employee on 07-29-2011 08:56 AM
Status changed to: Accepted
 
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