Screen Designer

Screen Designer is a tabbed pane that allows you to manage the screens contained in your module. When you open a screen you are opening an instance of the Screen Designer and you will automatically see a contextual tab in the ribbon bar that shows options specifically related to screens.

Screen Designer is split into 3 panes—the toolbox (with Field Picker), the Layout pane, and the Properties pane. You add fields and controls to the Layout pane, where you arrange and configure them to build your user-defined screen.

All screen elements have associated properties. You may be happy with the default settings or you may wish to edit them in order to change how they look. In addition, some controls have mandatory properties which must be set and some require specific information to be defined in order to control their behaviour. You do this by configuring each setting in the right-hand Properties pane.

A. Toolbox  B. Layout pane  C. Control  D. Field  E. Properties pane

• Screen Designer is only displayed when you open a screen.
• The toolbox lists all the fields and controls that can be added to a screen.
• The Layout pane always displays a top-level container.
• The Properties pane lists all the settings associated with the selected control. It allows you to define the configuration settings and constraints that apply to controls when they are used.
• The Properties pane shows the most common settings by default, however, sections can be expanded to show all settings.