Blog: Posts from March, 2012

The standard data lookup window displays 10 records per page by default. You can change that by entering a value in the Page Size property under the Lookup section of the lookup data field.

The following screen shot shows the custom page size configured for the data controller field Products / Fields/ SupplierID.

This is the lookup window activated at runtime. The custom page size is set to “5”.

Let’s rearrange the Order Form page to make it easier for the end user to interact with the data. To do this, we will need to add a custom “Order Form Template” user control to the page.

In the Designer, right-click on OrderForm / c100 node, and press New Control.

The new control requires you to select an existing user control. Instead of pressing (select), click on the New icon to the right of the field.

Give this user control the name of:

OrderFormTemplate

Press OK to create the User Control. You will return to the New Control page.

Leave the rest of the settings as default, and press OK to insert the control into the page container Order Form / c100.

Press generate to regenerate the application.

The new user control will be generated if it doesn’t exist. If the generator detects that the file exists, then it will not be overwritten – any changes to the file will be preserved between code generation sessions.