Displaying User-Defined Fields Defined in Earlier Versions

Disabled "User Defined" tabs are included on certain forms. The fields on these tabs provide backward compatibility with user-defined fields in pre-7.0 versions of SyteLine. By default, the fields are enabled as in your earlier SyteLine installation, but they have generic labels. The tabs contain three character fields, three decimal fields, one date field, and one Boolean field, along with field labels. You can access these fields when the tab is enabled.

This topic explains how to enable User Defined tabs, edit the labels on the fields on these tabs, and move and resize fields.

NOTE: System administrators modifying forms typically have Site Developer editing permission. Site developers can set the scope of their editing to an individual user, a group of users, or to all users. Site developers may have to consider the scope of their changes to user-defined fields on a field-by-field basis. For information on editing scope, see Editing Permissions and the topic "Set and Change Editing Scope" in the help. These instructions assume you have Site Developer editing permission.

Enabling the User Defined Tab

  1. Open a form containing a User Defined tab, for example, the Items form.
  2. Select Edit>Design Mode and specify the editing scope for the tab you are enabling. The scope remains in effect until you reset it. For important details on setting the scope for a form during an editing session, refer to the topic "Set and Change Editing Scope" in the help.
  3. Select the User Defined tab.
  4. On the Component properties sheet, set Read-only/Disable to False.
  5. Select Form>Definition>Save.

Editing a Default Field Label

  1. Enable the tab as described in the previous procedure.
  2. Select Edit>Design Mode and specify the editing scope for the field label(s) you are editing. The scope remains in effect until you reset it. For important details on setting the scope for a form during an editing session, refer to the topic "Set and Change Editing Scope" in the help.
  3. Click the field label on the User Defined tab.
  4. On the Component properties sheet, enter your Caption for the field. By default, a colon (":") is appended to the label at run time.
  5. Select Form>Definition>Save.

Repositioning and Resizing Fields

For information on repositioning and resizing fields and labels, see the topics "Move a Component" and "Size a Component" in the help.

Related Topics

User-Defined Tab