User Interface tab

Use this tab to specify the form properties, link reports and charts to the session, and specify text fields.

Form
Edit/View Form
To edit or view the form in the Dynamic Form Editor (DFE), click the Edit/View Form hyperlink.
Label of Object
You can enter a label name in this field. At runtime, the label is visible in the pull-down menu of the session if the session belongs to a multi-main table session.
Allowed values:

To specify this field, click Browse and select a label name from select dialog box.

Customization prohibited
If this check box is selected, , the customize form functionality in a details session and the customize visibility, ordering and width of columns functionality in an overview session is disabled if the session is started from Web UI.
Default Button
Command Type
Select the command type of the session's default button.
Allowed values:
Not Applicable The default button is disabled.
Standard Command The default button starts a standard command.
Form Command The default button starts a form command.
Default Button
Select a command for the session's default command button. The default command button is the command LN carries out when a user presses the Enter key whilst using the session. The default command button is always the first button in the list of command buttons included on a session's form.
Allowed values:
Not Applicable Session's default command button is disabled.
If Command Type is Standard Command One of the session's Standard Commands.
If Command Type is Form Command One of the session's Form Commands.
Dynamic index switching
Select the session's dynamic index switching options.

You can only enable dynamic index switching if the current session has a Main Table. For sessions without a main table, disable dynamic index switching. To do this, select value 'No'.

Allowed values:
No When a user chooses a new index, the view fields and session layout do not change. Select this value if the session does not have a main table.
Restart when view-fields differ The session restarts when a user chooses a new index, which alters the view fields displayed above the session's grid.
Always restart The session restarts when a user chooses any new index.
Related topics:
Show name of index
If this check box is selected, the session's title bar displays the current index for overview sessions with dynamic index switching implemented.

The check box is disabled if Dynamic Index Switching has value ‘No’.

Workflow / Web UI
Workflow Enabled
Use this field to specify whether the session can run in a Workflow environment.
Allowed values:

Select one of the following values from the drop-down list. Only three values of the list have a meaning, as indicated in the table below.

Value Description
Not checked The session has not been checked in a Workflow environment
Single / Redoable The session has been checked in a Workflow environment and executed successfully
Single / Not Redoable Not used
Container / Redoable Not used
Container / Not Redoable Not used
Single / Container / Redoable Not used
Single / Container/ Not Redoable Not used
Not Workflow Enabled The session has been checked in a Workflow environment but failed
Web UI Enabled
If this check box is selected, you can successfully run this session in a Web UI environment.
Reports
List of all reports linked to the current session. The reports are listed by report group.

You can add or remove reports:

  • To add a report to a session, click Add. The Select a Report dialog box starts. Click Browse and choose a report. Then, specify a report group number and click OK.

    See the online help of the Select a Report dialog box.

  • To remove a report from a session, right-click the report and select Remove.

You can drag and drop reports from one report group to another.

To change the sequence of the reports in a report group, move them up or down the group list.

Charts
List of all charts linked to the current session. The charts are listed by chart group.

You can add or remove charts:

  • To add a chart to a session, click Add. The Select a Chart dialog box starts. Click Browse and choose a chart. Then, specify a chart group number and click OK.

    See the online help of the Select a Chart dialog box.

  • To remove a chart from a session, right-click the chart and, on the shortcut menu, select Remove.

You can drag and drop charts from one chart group to another.

To change the sequence of the charts in a chart group, move them up or down the group list.

Text Fields
List of all text fields of the current session (text fields are table fields of data type text).

You can add or remove text fields.

To add a text field to a session:

  1. Click Add.
  2. In the Name field in the grid, press CTRL+SPACE to start a dialog where you can select text fields.
  3. Select the desired text field and click OK. The text field is displayed in the grid.
  4. Complete one of these steps:
    • Clear the Writable check box, so users can only read the text.
    • Select the Writable check box, so users can also edit the text.

    The text authorizations by text group, defined in the Text manager module, always have priority over the authorizations you define in this grid. For example, a user is not authorized to change texts in text group ABC. Therefore, even if this check box is selected, he cannot edit a text that belongs to text group ABC.

To remove a text field from a session, right-click the text field and, on the shortcut menu, select Remove.

To change the sequence of the text fields, move them up or down the list. The sequence in the Session editor corresponds with the order in which the text fields are displayed in the session at runtime.