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Details​

Show a detail tab or tile for a table​

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Links > tab Details

Detail tabs and detail tiles for references can be turned on and off:

  1. Select the Show detail checkbox to specify whether a subject should be included as a detail tab or detail tile.
  2. Optionally, use the up-arrow and down-arrow tasks on the left-hand side to put the detail tabs in sequence.

You can link detail tabs and tiles to a Screen area. For more information, see Screen areas. If a screen area is not available in the assigned screen type, the fallback area will be used.

To link a detail to a screen area:

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Default/Variants > tab Links > tab Details

  1. Select a Table or Table variant.

  2. Select a Screen area to link a detail to a screen type with the same screen area:

Details in a table Overview of Details in a table

Add a detail reference to a Filter pop-up​

Universal GUI

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Subjects > tab Default > tab Links > tab Details

In a Filter pop-up, users can filter multiple levels deep on data in related detail references for a subject. You can configure which detail references are available. For more information, see:

To link an existing task to a table:

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Default/Variants > tab Links > tab Tasks > tab Task > tab Form > tab Task

For more information about the settings, see Create a table task.

A table report is a report that is linked to one or more tables. To link an existing report to a table:

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Default/Variants > tab Links > tab Reports > tab Report > tab Form > tab Report

For more information about the settings, see Create a table report.

Lookups​

Use a column as a lookup​

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Links > tab Look-ups

For each reference, you can indicate whether it should be used as a look-up. This can be different for each column. In the case of a specific look-up, table settings such as the look-up type, the column view, etc., can be overwritten.

The GUI will resolve recursive look-up presentation. If the last reference field in the look-up table has a look-up and the previous reference field is left blank, the presentation field of this field is used (recursive).

Settings:

Table Look-ups in Links Overview of Look-ups in Links

Add a lookup reference to a Filter pop-up​

Universal GUI

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Subjects > tab Default > tab Links > tab Look-ups

In a Filter pop-up, users can filter multiple levels deep on related lookup references for a subject. You can configure which lookup references are available. For more information, see:

Keyboard on a mobile device for a column with a look-up control​

When opening a look-up control in a column, a keyboard will only appear if you set the Extended property DisableKeyboardForAutoCompleteCombo to false.

Note that if a lookup has a Default control with a suggestion (as configured in the menu User interface > Subjects > Settings), a keyboard will always open when accessing the lookup. A suggestion type control will display a maximum of 8 results based on the typed search criteria.

You can base the choice between these options on user preference and the number of items expected in the (unfiltered) dropdown.

Universal GUI

Users can open lookup pop-ups by clicking on hyperlinks in the grid, form or card list. Lookup hyperlinks are only available for read-only fields. For more information see Open a lookup pop-up from the grid and Card list (Universal GUI).

To display lookup hyperlinks for read-only fields, configure the following settings:

When Show action button is set to Never and Look-up has popup is not selected, no lookup hyperlink is displayed and the user cannot open the lookup pop-up in any other way.

You can allow users to drag records from a grid or tree to another or the same subject.

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Links > tab Drag-drop > tab Form

  1. Select a Source tab and a Target tab.

  2. Select a Drag-drop task. Before you can select a task as a drag-and-drop task, you must first create that task through the regular process. See Set up a task. What makes a task a drag-and-drop task is not determined by any setting within the task itself, but rather by its configuration as a drag-and-drop task on this screen.

    dragdrop form Select a source, target, and task

  3. The selected task uses the parameters as mapped in tab Drag-drop parameter. Here, you can map a Column from the source table to a Task parameter. If multiple rows are dragged, the task will be executed multiple times. Task settings for pop-up per row will be applied.

    Task parameters that are mapped by both the target and source table will be checked for equality. If the values are not equal, drag-and-drop will be prevented by the GUI.

    dragdrop parameters Parameters for the drag-and-drop task

  4. By default, the drag-and-drop link is inactive. In tab Drag-drop interaction, you can enable enable each source-target combination.

    enable dragdrop Enable the drag-and-drop combination

  5. When dragging over a component in a grid (Windows GUI or tree), the user interface by default selects multiple rows. To change this behavior, you can enable drag-and-drop in the context menu (right-click > Tasks > Enable drag-drop).

tip

You can enable drrag-and-drop by default for the source table or variant in the model (menu Models > Model content > tab Tables > tab Form > tab General > checkbox Def. drag-drop enabled).

The GUI allows rows to be dropped on any component of the target table. However, when a user hovers over a multirow-component of the target during drag-and-drop, the GUI will apply one of the following behaviors:

  • If the drag-and-drop task has variable input, depending on the selected row of the target, the GUI will navigate to the hovered row.

  • If the drag-and-drop task only has one unique set of input, and the selected row will not change the input of the drag-and-drop task, the GUI will treat the grid or tree like any other component and not navigate to the hovered row.

Context procedures are executed during the hovered navigation, after a short delay. During this time, the cursor might display a question mark.

menu User interface > Subjects > tab Links > tab List bar items/Treeview items/Tiles

These tabs show the links between tables and menu items. It is possible to modify this.

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