Edit Form Template Property Attributes dialog box

Use this dialog box to specify how an IDO property is to be represented by a component on a form template.

Field/Option Description
Caption This option specifies the caption of the component for the property.

You can enter literal text, select a string, or click the button to create or edit a string.

Include in Grid When this option is selected the resulting component is also displayed in in the Grid View. To omit the component from the Grid View, clear this check box.

This option applies to multiview forms only.

Containment This option specifies what type of container holds the component, if any. These are the possible options:
  • Default signifies that the component is not in any container.
  • Form Page specifies that component is to be displayed on one or more form pages.
  • Notebook specifies that the component is to be contained within a notebook tab.
Container Sequence For components located within containers, this option specifies the sequence number for the component within the container.

 Windows client manages this sequence for most containers. For form page components, you must specify a zero-based sequence for each form page component.

Component Class This field specifies the name of a component class associated with this component.

To edit the component class, click the button.

Component Class Parms This field specifies any parameters that are to be passed to validators defined in the component class.

Parameters are usually a string of Windows client keywords and their parameters.