Form Designer: Menu Bar

Designer menu

Controls the appearance of the feature class forms.

Options

Controls the general appearance and assigns Help files or Help documents. See Form Designer Menu: Options

Master-Detail

Current Details: Lists the relations that are defined as master-detail.

Available: Lists all related tables: <table_name of related table>, <column of related table>, <column of table>.

Click to select an item and then click an arrow button to move from one list to the other or to change the order.

Note: One default value for the height of the detail form is stored in the system table TB_GN_DIALOG.DefaultDetailHeight. Do not edit this table manually. When someone who is not an ADMIN user opens a master-detail form for the first time, this size is applied.

GridOrder

Changes the order of the attributes or hides/shows certain controls in table view mode (in the grid).

Select Automatic to order the controls by their position (Top, Left) as defined in the form designer. For forms containing several tabs, the order is Tab ID, Top, Left.

Clear Automatic to define your own grid order. Select or clear the controls and use the arrows to move them.

Exit Without Saving

Cancels all changes that you have made.

Exit

Exits the form designer and saves all layout changes and configurations.

Edit menu

Processes the controls of the current form. In some cases, you can use hotkeys or drag a control.

Copy

Paste

You can copy and paste controls with all settings, such as for the position and caption. Controls that are related to an attribute are only pasted, if the attribute exists in the target form. If you paste a control that is related to an attribute, you are notified that some controls already exist and that you can replace them. If you do not want to replace them, only the new controls are pasted.

Hide All

Show All

By default, all controls are displayed. All hidden controls are listed in the left pane on the Controls tab (Hidden). All others are listed in Visible.

Note: Use the Hide command to remove a control that refers to a database attribute.

Hide Controls Without Data

Hides hide all controls that have no data (NULL) in the attribute of the table. You can remove the controls of unused attributes.

Use Close Gaps to close the gaps in the layout.

Hide All Reference Controls

Hides all reference controls.

Create Gap

Close Gaps

If you hide some of the default controls, there can be gaps between the remaining controls.

Auto Tab Order

The tab order defines the order, in which the cursor will move when you press <TAB> or <ENTER>. Default setting is Auto Tab Order is ON = From left to right and from top to bottom.

Note: The tab order affects only the Form View mode. You can set the Grid Order in Table View mode.

Move Control

Moves a single highlighted control upwards or downwards.

Delete Control

If the control refers to a database attribute, for example FID, delete does not affect the database. The next time you start the Form Designer, the control is Hidden.

Controls with no relation to database attributes are completely deleted.

Selection menu

Selects and processes the controls of the current form.

Select All

You can also select several controls at once (multi-selection), using the following:

By rectangle—Drag a rectangle containing the controls you want to select.

By click—Press Ctrl or Shift+click.

Hide Selected

Delete Selected

Hides or deletes the selected controls. Notice the difference between hide and delete.

Move Selected To Tab Page

Moves a control from one tab to another.

Tab Pages menu

Feature class forms in form view mode can include several tabs (Tab Pages) to display information.

Click Tab Pages menu > Group Suspend to specify that the tab page is invisible for one or more user groups. Tab pages can be suspended for certain user groups.