Using the Designer preview editing feature

Infor Mashup Designer includes a feature for manipulating elements on the Designer grid interactively that includes a drag and drop method for adding and moving controls.

The preview editing feature lets you:

• Drag controls onto the designer canvas at the location where you want them to be or move them after they have been placed
• Quickly add rows and columns or change their size and position on the grid
• Right-click a control to open a context menu that lets you quickly edit control properties or perform other actions.

Most importantly, this method lets you see during design time the effect of changes you are currently making so you can change them on the fly.

The menu method of adding controls to the designer canvas and manipulating its features is still available for you to use. Many mashup developers might choose to use a combination the drag and drop and menu-driven methods. For developers knowledgeable in XAML, editing controls directly through the XAML editor is also still available.