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ID

• What it does: Programmatic ID of the control.
• How to use it: Enter the text.
• Other notes: This must be unique. 

Visible checkbox

• What it does: Determines whether the user can see the control.
• How to use it: Click the checkbox to check or uncheck.

Mode

• What it does: Determines whether the way the user opened the form affects the control. Options are All, New, and Update. All means that regardless of whether the user created new or opened existing, the control behaves the same. New is for creating new and Update is for opening existing.
• How to use it: Select from the drop down.
• Other notes: It defaults to All.

Visible Rule

• What it does: Displays the control if it evaluates to true. Hides the control if it evaluates to false.
• How to use it: Enter the rule from the entity.
• Other notes: The rule comes from the entity. It must be configured there for you to use it here.

Resource

• What it does: Security ID that determines whether the user can access the control.
• How to use it: Enter the ID from the security table.

CSS Class

• What it does: Custom style sheet class that controls cell appearance.
• How to use it: Enter the text.
• Other notes: If left blank, the appearance is default. The class must be configured in the MVVM project style sheet in the .NET project.

Custom Attributes

• What it does: Custom attribute defined by the developer to be rendered on the HTML page.
• How to use it: Enter the text.

Entity Field

• What it does: Displays the associated entity field.
• How to use it: Enter the column.

Active Form

• What it does: Form the control navigates to when clicked.
• How to use it: Enter the form.
• Other notes: You can have single or multiple navigation forms. A form has to exist as an XML file before you can enter it here.

Navigation Parameter

• What it does: Property that maps the parameter to the column value if the method takes a parameter.
• How to use it: 
  1. Click the magnifying glass icon to open the Navigation Params window.
  2. Drag the matching form control to the Parameter Value field.
  3. Mark the parameter as a constant if its value is assigned by the application (it is a primary key).
• Other notes: A custom new method (configured on the entity) usually takes at least one parameter. The new object method from the framework usually does not. Exception: if the form has session fields (carry criteria), these must be mapped in the navigation parameters.

Text

• What it does: Text the user sees as the control name.
• How to use it: Enter the text.

Related Grid

• What it does: Grid the control affects.
• How to use it: Select from the drop down.

Query ID

• What it does: Query the control executes.
• How to use it: Enter the query.

Set Query Parameter button

• What it does: Enables setting the parameters used by the query.
• How to use it: 
  1. Click the button.
  2. Set the parameters.
  3. Click OK.

Copy Activity Session Variable checkbox

• What it does: Indicates whether the variables will be carried over during BPM/workflow.
• How to use it: Click to check or uncheck.

Trigger PostBack checkbox

• What it does: Indicates whether to trigger postback action.
• How to use it: Click to check or uncheck.

This post is part of the Maintenance Form topic. Click here to open the Maintenance Form Overview.