View page - RichTextBox

1. General information

RichTextBox is a text box of any width and height for entering formatted text.

The new richtextbox can be created as follows from the view page using the toolbar with controls:

First, clicking the mouse on the view page determines the position in which the new richtextbox should be placed. This will highlight the selected position with a gray horizontal line. Then just click on the item “RichTextBox” in the toolbar of the view page, fill in the attributes of the new control in the newly opened dialog, and then save. This will insert a new richtextbox at a pre-selected location on the view page.
If the desired position is not determined before inserting a new richtextbox, the new richtextbox will be inserted at the end of the view page.

For each existing control, a pencil icon appears to the left of the control page to change or delete the control's settings.
Individual controls can be moved vertically on the view page using the Drag&Drop method. Moving consists of grabbing the control, preferably behind its name, and then dragging it to the desired location on the view page.
Controls can be moved only with the “Drag&Drop” check box located above the toolbar with controls selected. For security reasons, this check box is cleared after each login to the application, so that a control is not moved by accident.

The name of the control displayed on the view page in a separate column with a colored background to the left of the text box itself.

The dictionary lists the names of other controls, forms, view pages, categories, applications, and application groups used across the entire application.
The dictionary search is used to design the correct control name and to maintain the consistency of the nomenclature throughout the application so that controls with the same meaning located in different places in the application are named in the same way.

The default height of the control, in pixels.
The height of the text box automatically increases so that the entire contents of the text box are always visible.

The value is defined by the database query that is evaluated when the view page is opened, and specifies the value displayed in the text box.
The value of the text field can be accessed using the variables “#richtextbox1#”, “#richtextbox2#”, “#richtextbox3#” etc. in the script. The index indicates the order of the rich text box on the view page.

Read-only
- The read-only control setting determines whether the text box should be disabled on the view page.
- It is not possible to enter values manually in the disabled field.
Comment
- The comment determines whether the text box should be displayed read-only with the option to enter comments using the “New comment” button located below the text box on the view page.
- Clicking on the “New comment” button will display a new dialog with the option to enter a comment in the form of formatted text.
- Subsequent confirmation of the entered comment using the “Insert comment” button or using the “CTRL + ENTER” key combination inserts into text fields on the view page
  - a blank line if the text box already contains text,
  - login name of the author of the comment,
  - comma and space,
  - current date and time,
  - go to a new line and
  - the text of the written comment itself.

Rights define a list of user groups and users who have permission to display the control on the view page.
For a new control, the rights are prefilled from the control at the position selected before inserting it; if no position is selected, from the rights of the view page.

The “Replace rights to other controls” feature is used to unify rights across the entire view page for controls that are related in terms of rights.
Thanks to the “Show...” link, it is possible to display a list of all controls on the view page, including the settings of the rights of these controls. A check box is displayed for each control to select it. When the control is saved, the same rights are then set for the selected controls.
An alternative for unifying rights within the entire view page is the overview of the rights settings of all controls, displayed by the “Show summary...” link on the “Rights” tab in the view page settings.

Select the view page on which the control is located.
The drop-down list contains the view pages located in the same application and in the same category as the view page on which the control stands. For a view page without a category, it offers only view pages without a category. For a new control, it contains only the current view page.