1. General information
1.1. Description of the control
RichText is formatted text that is used to place descriptive information or help in an edit form.
1.2. Create a new control
- A detailed description of creating new controls in the edit form is provided in the separate guide Creating edit form controls.
1.3. Edit or delete a control
- For each existing control, a pencil icon appears on the left side of the edit form to change or delete the control's settings.
- Individual controls can be moved vertically in the edit form using the Drag&Drop method. Moving consists of grabbing the control, preferably behind its name located in the left column of the edit form, and then dragging it to the desired position in the edit form.
- For security reasons, it is important to have the function of moving controls enabled using the “Drag&Drop” check box located above the toolbar with controls. This field is unchecked each time you log in to the application.
2. List of tabs in the control settings dialog
- General – Setting general properties
- Other – Floating help and report help settings
- Rights – Rights settings
- Administration – Setting other properties
2.1. “General” tab
2.1.1. Text
- Text defines HTML code with formatted text and images.
- The radio text button contains the following two types of text definition:
- User defined – text that defines a manually entered text string in a formatted text editor
- From query – the text that defines the result of the database query
2.2. “Other” tab
2.2.1. Options
- Floating help in the Edit form
- Checking this box determines whether the formatted text should be part of the floating help, located in the upper-right corner of the edit form.
- Help in reports
- Checking this box determines whether the formatted text should be part of an application-wide summary help that is available using the “#help#” variable. A detailed description of the variables is given in a separate manual “Variables”.
- Checking this box determines whether this control should be included in the “Edit Forms (Export)” report. A detailed description of the reports is given in a separate manual “Reports”.
2.3. “Rights” tab
2.3.1. Rights
- Rights define a list of user groups and users who have permission to view the control on the edit form.
2.3.2. Replace rights to other controls
- The “Replace rights to other controls” function is used to unify the rights within the entire edit form for controls that are related in terms of rights.
- Thanks to the “Show…” link, it is possible to display a list of all controls in the edit form, including setting the rights of these controls. For each control, a check box is displayed that allows you to select the control. When you save a control, the same rights are then set for those selected controls.
- An alternative for unifying rights within the entire edit form is to display the report available from the “Subordinate object rights” tab in the edit form settings.
2.4. “Administration” tab
- The “Administration” tab is only displayed for existing controls.
2.4.1. Change type to
- The drop-down list offers the types of controls to which conversion of the control is supported.
2.5. “Save”, “Edit in external editor”, “Copy”, “Delete”, and “Close” buttons
- “Save” button – Saves changes to the control settings.
- “Edit in external editor” button – Saves the changes to the control settings and opens the external Froala editor to edit the richtext content in full-screen mode.
- “Copy” button – Creates a new copy of the current control with identical settings, but with a newly generated unique identifier.
- “Delete” button – Permanently deletes the control.
- “Close” button – Closes the control settings dialog without saving changes.