All field controls appear in the same format in the page designer. The SubType column is empty and the SourceExpr column contains the data expression that will be displayed.
All of the field control properties are listed for each field, but individual properties only apply to the data type for which they make sense. For example, the DecimalPlaces property only applies to fields where the data type is decimal. The following is a subset screenshot of the properties for field controls:
We'll review the field control properties that are more frequently used or that are more significant in terms of effect, as follows:
- Visible, Enabled, and Editable: These have the same functionality as the identically named group controls, but they only apply to individual fields. If the group control is set to FALSE, either statically (in the control definition within the page) or dynamically by an expression evaluated during processing, the group control's FALSE condition will...