Add/Details Form property

Use the Add/Details Form property to specify the name of a form that is opened when the user selects Add or Details from a component's shortcut menu.

Add and Details menu commands are data drill-down features. To enable them, you must specify a shortcut menu for a component in its Right-Click Menu property.

Both commands open the form used to maintain the object referenced in a component. The Add command opens the form initialized for the insertion of a new object. Any new object added may optionally be returned to the component. The Details command opens the form initialized to the object currently referenced in the component.

An order-entry form, for instance, typically contains a Customer ID component that is used to reference the customer placing the order. Detailed information about the customer is typically maintained in a separate Customers form. The Add and Details commands on the shortcut menu for the Customer ID component can be set to open the Customers form.

To specify additional criteria for opening the form, click the ellipsis (...) button.