About the toolbar in FormOnly mode

Note: This topic applies to forms that are created to display in "FormOnly mode." These are somewhat different from forms created specifically as Form Only type forms, although many of the same concepts apply.

Some forms are designed to be opened in "FormOnly mode," that is, they are forms designed to be viewed and used without standard toolbars or menu bars. Mobile forms are good examples of this type of form. Typically, this means that, if a toolbar is used, it has fewer options than most standard forms.

Note: When forms that are designed to be viewed in FormOnly mode are opened in a standard smart client window or a standard web client window, they use the standard WinStudio toolbar, with any custom toolbar buttons displayed to the right of the standard buttons.

The FormOnly mode toolbar display

Settings for Form-Only mode toolbars are made at the form level. The primary control that determines whether the toolbar displays at all, and if so where, is the DisplayMobileToolbar form variable. This variable has four options:

top causes the toolbar to display only at the top of the form.
bottom causes the toolbar to display only at the bottom of the form.
both causes the toolbar to display both at the top and the bottom of the form.
neither (default) causes the toolbar to not display at all.

Displaying buttons

To display on the toolbar, buttons must be set individually. This must be done in Design Mode, using the Collections tab of the Form properties sheet. There, the Standard Operations options are used to select which buttons to display.

Only those buttons set to True display when the toolbar is displayed. Available buttons include these:

Filter allows you to filter the results for desired records.
New/Copy creates a record or copies an existing record.
Save saves whatever changes have been made to records.
Delete marks the selected record for deletion.

Displaying record counts

You can also display a count of records returned as part of the toolbar display for a form-only mode display. This record count display includes both the number of the current record being displayed and the number of total records returned; for example: 5 of 38

This record count display is controlled by the DisplayMobileCount form variable. When this variable is set to True, the record count is displayed, right-justified in the toolbar.

Creating a custom toolbar option

You can also create a custom toolbar option that allows your toolbar button to appear just to the right of any standard operation buttons that are displayed on the toolbar.

See Creating a custom toolbar option.