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About Tile Forms

A tile is a specific type of form, which can be bound to a single collection row in another form. Use tiles to display key information succinctly, with user interaction options such as drag-and-drop, "pulling out a drawer" with more information, clicking to go to a different form, etc. Essentially, tiles are embeddable forms with limited capabilities.

When multiple tiles are displayed in a form, it is the container’s responsibility to manage the multiple UI controls and bind them to appropriate rows.

In tiles, the current row is indicated by a background color that is specified in the theme, or it uses the same color as the grid’s current row color. Current row status icons (new, dirty, error, and workflow) are displayed in the upper left corner, overlaid on the tile, similar to the way they are handled in grid rows.

Only tiles that are compatible with the grid (that use the same collection as the grid’s bound collection) are listed in the Tile Form Name property drop-down list.

Tile forms are very restricted as compared to other types of forms:

• The only form event to be processed is the primary event (click) on components.
• No form scripts can run.
• No form variables are present.
• Filter-in-place is not possible.
• You cannot add any new Action menus or toolbar buttons.
• Right click menus are disabled.
• Tiles can only bind to a single collection.
• Data in tiles is read-only.
• Only these component types are allowed on tiles:
  • Static, which can display images as well as text
  • Edit
  • Multiline edit
  • Button, which can also display an optional image
  • Hyperlink
  • Checkbox
  • Graph
  • Combo and Date Combo (read-only)

Related Topics

Creating a Tile Form

Adding Tiles to a Form

Working with Tiles