View page - Tab

View page - Tab

1. General information

A tab is a tab used to group other controls on a view page into separate windows.

A new tab can be created from the view page using the toolbar with controls:

First, clicking the mouse on the view page determines the position in which the new tab should be placed. This will highlight the selected position with a gray horizontal line. Then just click on the “Tab” item 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 tab on a pre-selected location on the view page.
If the desired position is not determined before inserting a new tab, the new tab 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 tab text is defined by a text constant, a variable, or a combination of both.

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 tab type determines the beginning or end of the tab.
- Tab – Start of tab
- End of the tab – End of the set of tabs. In user mode, it closes the whole set of tabs, and the controls placed after it are displayed below the tabs regardless of the selected tab. It applies only if the view page contains a single end of the tab placed after the last control of the “Tab” type; otherwise it is not used and the tabs remain open until the end of the view page.

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.

Change type to
- The drop-down list offers the types of controls to which conversion of the control is supported.