Field Properties

For each field on a form, use the Properties tab in Developer Studio to set properties that determine the look and behavior of the field during operations performed in a browser. The properties listed in the Properties tab vary depending on the type of field you create or modify.

The following tables list the field properties in alphabetical order.

Field properties A to C

Property	Field type	Description	Is this field supported in progressive views?
Active Link(s)	Button	See Creating button fields.
Active Link(s)	Navigation field menu item	See Creating navigation fields.
Active Link On Clear	Character	Specifies the name of the active link that gets executed when you select Clear from a drop-down menu at runtime after you've already selected an option. This property is displayed only when there is a menu attached to a character field. To set the active link: Select a character field. In the Menu Name property on the Properties tab, specify a menu name by clicking the ellipsis button, and then selecting a menu. The Active Link On Clear property is displayed in the Property column. In the Value column, click the ellipsis button for the Active Link On Clear property. The Active Link Selector dialog box is displayed. Select one or more active links, and then click OK. The active link is set.
Active Link On Content Change	Column	This property is visible only when the you select the Editable value for the Display Type property for a Column field. Then, you can select the active link that gets executed at runtime when you edit the contents. See Setting column properties.
Active Link on Row Reordering	Table Cell Based, Table - List View	Stores the name of the active link for row reordering. This is a text field and is visible only when you select the True value for the Enable Row Reordering property. See Table fields and List view table fields.
Active Link on Row Unselect	Table Cell Based, Table - List View	As a value for this property, you can specify the active link to be executes whenever you cancel the selection of a table row. Just click the ellipsis button in the Value column for this property, and then in the Active Link Selector dialog box, choose an active link. See Table fields and List view table fields .
Add Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Add New Panel	Panel holder (all)	See Creating panel holders.
Alignment	Data (all) Display (all except navigation field menu items) Composite (all except table columns and panels in panel holders)	Specifies whether the field's horizontal position is anchored to the Left (default) or the Right side of a form. This property is valid in the Mid Tier . See Anchoring fields to the right side of a form or panel.
Align Item	Flow Panel Holder	Specifies the horizontal and vertical alignment of an item. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The following can be the values for this property: None (Default) Top Top Left Top Center Top Right Bottom Bottom Left Bottom Center Bottom Right Center Center Left Center Center Center Right Right Left
Allow Any User to Submit	Attachment Data (all)	See Special submit setting.
Alternative Text	All fields that have this property	See Adding images to buttons. For Button fields, the Alternative Text field property is available under Image. For the other field types, Alternative Text field property is found under Display.
Anchorable	Panels	Specifies if a panel is anchorable. This property is enabled only when you set the orientation of a Flow Panel Holder containing the panel to Vertical. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True See Modifying panels and panel holders.
Anchor Placement	Flow Panel Holder	Specifies the side on which an anchor is to be placed. This property is enabled only when you set the orientation of a Flow Panel Holder to Vertical. This property can have the following values: Left (Default) Right See Modifying panels and panel holders .
Answer Font	Survey Component	Specifies the font of the answer text. This property is displayed only when you set the value for the Display As Text property to True. This property can have the following values: Detail Text Edit Field Header Text (I) Header Text (II) Header Text (III) Note Text Optional Field Push Button Radio Button Required Field System Field
Attach Name Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Attach Orphaned Items	Navigation (all)	See Creating navigation fields.	Progressive views support this property with vertical navigation.
Attachment Fields	Attachment Pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Attachment Pool List	Attachment	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Attachment Mode	Attachment Pool	Specifies the attachment mode. See Managing attachments in application interfaces.
Attachment Size	Attachment Pool	Specifies an attachment size. See Managing attachments in application interfaces.
Audit Log Key	Attachment Data (all)	See Configuring auditing.
Audit Option	Attachment Data (all)	Select one of these options: None -Changes to the field are not recorded by any audits. Audit -Changes to this field trigger an audit. New values are recorded in the audit form or log form, depending on the audit style set at the form level. Copy -Changes to this field are recorded during an audit, but they do not trigger an audit. Audit and Copy -Changes to this field trigger an audit if the field is changed, but if it is not changed, it is still copied (that is, behaves like a copy field). See Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links.
Auto Complete	Character	See To enable or disable auto-complete.
Auto Complete After Keystrokes	Character	See Automatically completing menu entries.
Auto Complete Match By	Character	See To configure auto-complete to match by label.
Auto Fit Columns	Alert list Table - Cell Based Table - List View Results list	See To add a table field to a form.
Auto Refresh String	Alert list	See Customizing table labels.
Auto Resize	Character	See To enable dynamic resizing of dynamic fields.
Auto Resize	View field and DVF	The default value of this property is True where the view field is set to adjust its height depending on the content within the view field. If you set Auto Resize to True and do not set any maximum height limitations, Developer Studio ignores the Scroll Bar property. If you set Auto Resize to False, then the view field height is decided by either the Height property or the Maximum Height property.	(Available only for PWA)
Background Color	Table - Cell Based Panel (all) Trim box Trim text Drop-Down List Radio Button Check Box Flow Panel Tab Panel	Specifies the background color: Select the appropriate field. (Panels and trim fields) On the Properties tab, for the Background Mode property, select the Opaque value. From the Background Color drop-down list, select Color. Select a color from the color palette, and click OK. The selected color is displayed in the Background cell. This property is also added to the Change Field active link action in Developer Studio . See Defining Change Field active link actions.	Progressive views do not support Trim box.
Background Image	Table - Cell Based Panel (all)	For cell-based tables, specifies the background image in all the cells in the table. For each device type, namely desktop, mobile, and tablet, the Background Image property is available. Thus, you can set a different image for each device type and each image is independent of the other. See Adding background images to fields and form views .	This property is not supported for Cell-based tables in progressive views.
Background Image Horizontal	Table - Cell Based Panel (all)	For cell-based tables, specifies the position of the image in the cells from side to side. For panels, specifies the position of the image in the panel from side to side. This property can have the following values: Left (Default) Center Fill Right Tile See Adding background images to fields and form views.	This property is not supported for Cell-based tables in progressive views.
Background Image Vertical	Table - Cell Based Panel (all)	For cell-based tables, specifies the position of the image in the cells from top to bottom. For panels, specifies the position of the image in the panel from top to bottom. This property can have the following values: Top (Default) Center Fill Bottom Tile See Adding background images to fields and form views.	This property is not supported for Cell-based tables and panels in progressive views.
Background Mode	Panel (all) Trim box Trim text	Specifies whether the background is opaque or transparent. For text fields in a browser, the opaque background is white.	This property is supported only for panels in progressive views.
Background Mode	Panel holder (all)	Specifies whether the background image for the view shows through the panel holder and all panels. Opaque (default)—Fields on the form behind the panel in the stacking order are not visible. Transparent—In a browser, fields on the form behind the panel holder in the stacking order are visible unless covered by a panel with a Background Color or Background Image set. For more information about background images and colors in views, see Setting form view properties.
Border	Application list DVF View	Specifies how borders are shown: Default—The field border is displayed only when the content of the view field is a URL. This option works with a browser. Hide—The field border is not displayed. Show—The field border is displayed.	Progressive views support Border property for Views.
Border Color	Panel (accordion, collapsible, splitter, Flow Panel, Tab Panel) View	Color of lines surrounding the cells. For the View field, the default value for the Border Color property is RGB {123, 123, 123}. To learn about the View field, see View fields.
Border Thickness	Panel (accordion, collapsible, splitter, Flow Panel, Tab Panel	Dimension of lines surrounding the cells. Specify in pixels. You can specify up to 9 pixels. Enter 0 to have no border. To create a border with the same number of pixels on all sides, enter one number. To create a border with varying sizes, enter the number of pixels for each side in the following order: Top, Right, Bottom, Left. Separate each entry with a comma. For example, to create a panel with borders that are 2 pixels on the right and left and 5 pixels on the top and bottom, enter 5,2,5,2. To create a panel with no borders on the top and bottom and borders of 3 pixels thick on the right and left, enter 0,3,0,3.
Borderless	Panel holder (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	Specifies whether a border appears around the panel holder. The default is True (border does not appear).
Bottom Padding	Flow Panel Holder	An element's padding is the space between its content and its border. This property sets the bottom padding (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) 0 1 2 3 4 5
Bottom Margin	Flow Panel Holder	An element's margin is the space around the element and outside of any defined borders. This property sets the bottom margin (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Bulk Select Label	Table - List View	Specifies the label for a check box that is displayed at the top of a list-view table. By default, the label is blank. You can specify any label, for example, Select All or Relate All. This property is available in the Labels property group and is visible in progressive views only. In a progressive view, when you select the check box, all rows in the table are selected. Also, if you select the check box (with any name, such as Relate All or Select All) the table is disabled. When you select the Select All check box, the check boxes for the table header and table rows are disabled. You can localize the Select All label. If you select all individual records from a single page or from multiple pages, the Select All check box is not selected automatically. When you select the Select All check box, all other actions except page navigation and record sorting are disabled on that page. You can use the ISTABLESELECTALLCHECKED function along with the Bulk Select Label property to check if the check box is selected. Learn more about this function at Functions.	(Available only for PWA.)
Button Label	Button	See Creating button fields.
Button Type	Button	This property specifies the type of button and can have the following values: Primary Secondary Tertiary Success Info Warning Critical See Button fields and Creating button fields.
Button Field	Table	Use this property to provide a button ID to display the filter in place of a button. This property is available in the Filter section.
Change History	All	Contains information about field modifications. AR System automatically records the owner of a field, the user who last modified the field, and the date of the modification. To display or add to this information, use the Change History properties. For more information, see Updating the change history of fields, forms, or objects.
Checkbox Column	List view table Results list	See Adding a Select All or Cancel All check-box column to tables.
Chunk Size	Character	Specifies the number of values that are displayed in a character menu field. This property is shown only when the Menu Name field is not empty. The type of this property is Integer and the default value is Empty. To set the chunk size: Select a character field. In the Menu Name property on the Properties tab, specify a menu name by clicking the ellipsis button, and then selecting a menu. The Chunk Size property is displayed in the Property column. In the Chunk Size property, specify an integer value. If you remove a menu after setting a value for this property, you must set the value of this property to Empty.
CLOB Storage	Character	Specifies how CLOB (character large object) data is stored: Default—Use the value of the Store CLOB In-Row option on the AR System Administration: Server Information form's Database tab. See Setting database options. In Row— If the length of the character data, including the LOB locator, is less than or equal to 4000 bytes, store the data "in row." If the length of the character data, including the LOB locator, is greater than 4000 bytes, store the LOB locator "in row" and the data "out row." In-row CLOBs can degrade CPU performance. Out Row—Store the data "out row." Out-row CLOBs can cause the database to grow rapidly. This property applies only to Oracle databases.
Column	All (view and vendor forms only)	Specifies the name of the database table column associated with the field. This field is read-only. For more information, see Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links.
Column Color	Table - List View	Specifies the color of a column in a List View table. To learn how to use this property, see Setting the color for a column in a list view table.
Column Header Color	Tables (all except cell-based tables)	Specifies the background color for the table column header
Column Header Text Color	Tables (all except cell-based tables)	Specifies the text color for the table column header.
Column Images	Table - List View	Specifies the images to be displayed in the column of a table. You can find this property in the Image property group on the Properties pane. When you don't specify any images for this property, the value for this property is shown as No images supplied. However, when you specify images, the value is shown as Images supplied. Learn how to use this property at To add images to a list-based table column.
Column Width	Alert list Table - Cell Based List view table Results list Tree view table	See Setting column properties.
Component Definition	Survey Component	Holds the survey component definition. You can type in the name of a definition file as a value for this property or select a file from the drop-down list. A survey component definition stores all mappings for a particular module, such as Change or SRM survey.
Content Clipping	Display	For cell-based tables, only when table chunking is enabled.
Currency Types	Currency	See Creating currency fields.
Custom CSS Style	All	Specifies a custom CSS style for the field. For more information, see AR System installed forms.
Custom Properties	DVF	See Data visualization fields.

Field properties D to F

Property	Field type	Description	Is this field supported in progressive views?
Data font	Data (all)	Specifies a font type for the data that users enter into the field. To change the data font, select any one of the following font types from the drop-down list: Edit Field—Defines the font for data in fields. Default font: MS Sans Serif 8. Optional Field—Defines the font for tabs in page fields and for labels of optional fields. Default font: MS Sans Serif 8. Push Button—Defines the font for buttons. Default font: MS Sans Serif 8. System Field—Defines the font for field labels set by AR System . Default font: MS Sans Serif Italic 8. Radio Button—Defines the font for radio (option) buttons. Default font: MS Sans Serif 8. Required Field—Defines the font for labels of required fields. Default font: MS Sans Serif Bold 8. Header Text I—Defines the font in text trim for titles. Default font: MS Sans Serif Bold 12. Header Text II—Defines the font in text trim for headers. Default font: MS Sans Serif Bold Italic 10. Header Text III—Defines an alternative font in text trim for headers. Default font: MS Sans Serif Bold 10. Note Text—Defines the font in text trim for labels. Default font: MS Sans Serif 8. Detail Text—Defines the font in text trim for details. Default font: Arial Serif 7. For Progressive Views, the following additional values are added in Developer Studio for this property: Header Text (IV) Header Text (V) Header Text (VI) Success Info Warning Error Important Header Text (IV), Header Text (V), and Header Text (VI) are available only for character fields.	Progressive Views support Character field
Data Length	Data (all)	Specifies the width of the field's data entry region in pixels. This often differs from the maximum length for data entered in the field (see "Input Length" in this section). If users enter more characters than can be displayed, the text scrolls off the end of the field, provided the internal field length can accommodate the input.
Data Type	All	Specifies the type of information that the field is designed to contain, for example, character or trim. This property is read-only. See Creating and managing fields.
Date Display Mode	Date, Date/Time	For progressive views, this new property is added. See Types of data fields.
Default Thumbnail Image	Character	Specifies the name of the Angular icon of a thumbnail: Select a character field. On the Properties tab, for the Display Type property, select the Thumbnail value from the drop-down list. The Default Thumbnail Image property is displayed in the Property column. Enter the name of the Angular icon of a thumbnail as a value for the Default Thumbnail Image property. To view the list of predefined icons that are available Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) in Developer Studio for Progressive Views, see Icons available in Developer Studio to support PWA.
Default Thumbnail Image	Table - List View	Specifies the default thumbnail image that is displayed in a table column. This property is visible only when you set the Render Data As Thumbnail property to True. Learn how to set column properties in a table at Setting column properties.	(Available only for PWA)
Default Value	Character	Specifies the value that appears in the field when users initially open the form to perform a search or to submit a new request in the Mid Tier . Default values can improve application usability. For example, creating a default value as a prompt in a required field ("Enter your name here") informs users what information must be entered in the field. You can use keywords to define a default value. Keyword values that are unlikely to change, such as $USER$, expand to a value when defaults are first set. Other keywords (such as $TIME$ ) expand to a value as late as possible when defaults are loaded. For more information, see Keywords. To add a default value, select the Default Value property, click its ellipsis button, enter the default value, and click OK.
	Date Date/Time Decimal Diary Integer Real Time	Specifies the value that appears in the field whenever users load default values before performing a search or submitting a new request. (Date and time fields) This value can be a static value or one of these keywords: $TIME$, $DATE$, or $TIMESTAMP$. (Diary fields) You can use keywords. For more information, see Keywords. To add a default value, select the Default Value property, click its ellipsis button, enter the default value, and click OK.
	Currency	See Creating currency fields.
Definition Name	DVF	Specifies the definition name for the data visualization module. For more information, see Data visualization fields.
Delete Button	Alert list Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Delete Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in interfaces by creating attachment pools.
Depth Effect	Horizontal line Trim box Vertical line	For a box or line, specifies the appearance of depth: None Raised Sunken Etched (default) For examples, see Creating trim fields.
Deselect All	Alert list Table - Cell Based List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Deselect Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Disable Change Flag	Data (all) Application list Attachment DVF View	Specifies whether the change flag ("dirty bit") is affected by the field you are creating. When this property is set to True, the field does not affect the change field status of the form. This can be helpful when you have calculations that use hidden fields. See `GET-CHANGE-FLAG` and `SET-CHANGE-FLAG` in Process commands. Any field not in the user's current view does not affect the change flag, even if the Disable Change Flag property is set to False. You can associate a `SET-CHANGE-FLAG` Run Process action with a field not in the view to set the change flag as needed. See Including and excluding fields from form views and information about special run processes and $PROCESS$ in Process commands .	Progressive views support only Data.
Disabled Image	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Display as Flat Image	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Display As Text	Character Data (all) Date/Time Diary Survey Component	When set to True, displays the contents of the field as plain text without a border or background. You might want to set a default value for the field (see Default Value in this section). When set to True for a character field, the text area is Read Only, and should not be editable by changing Field Access to Read/Write from Read Only. In other words, when set to True, Field Access has no impact on the text area of the data field. Character, date/time, and diary fields are editable by using an expand box. For the Survey Component field, this property specifies if the a form is to be displayed in the read-only mode. This property can have the following values: True (Default) False	Progressive views do not support the Diary field.
Display as Select	Column	Specifies if a field can be displayed as a menu or a selection field. This property is shown only when: The value of the Filter property is set to True. The Column field is Character with menu This property can have the following values: False (Default) True
Display Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Display NULL value As	Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Display Type	Button	See Creating button fields.
	Character	Specifies one of these display types: Drop-Down List—Users can select a value from a drop-down list. Values available in the list are from a menu attached to the character field. This option is available only if the character field has a menu attached to it. This option is different from the drop-down list for a selection field although they look similar. In non-Search modes, such as New and Modify, users can select a value from the list but cannot type directly in the field. In Search mode, users can either select a value from the list or type directly in the field. Users can also enter partial list values, such as "Business" instead of "Business Services," to find all requests whose value in the field includes the word "Business." Edit—Users can type values directly into the field. Edit Masked—Users can type values directly into the field, but the values are displayed as asterisks. This display type offers no special security. For example, the values are not stored in the database as encrypted values. Edit masked values are exported, imported and transmitted from client to server in clear text. File—Users can browse network file systems for a file path, which is added to the character field. See Adding a file system browser to character fields. Rich Text—Users can make rich-text-formatting (RTF) changes in a dialog box after they click the RTF icon next to the field. Rich Text In Place—Users can make RTF changes within the character field, or they can click the RTF icon and make RTF changes in a separate dialog box that contains more RTF options. For more information, see Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field. For Progressive views, the following display types are introduced: Phone Number—For a character field, after you set the Display Type as Phone Number, you can enter a phone number into the character field. Email—For a character field, after you set the Display Type as Email, you can enter an email address into the character field.
	Date/Time Date Time	Specifies one of these display types: Date/Time—Users can click a calendar to enter dates and times into the field. Users can also directly edit dates and times. Date—Users can click a calendar to enter dates into the field. Users can also directly edit dates. Time—Users can click increment and decrement arrows (q and p) to enter times into the field. Users can also directly edit times.
	Diary	Specifies this display type:* Edit—Users can type values directly into the field.
	Integer	Specifies one of these display types: Edit—Users can type values directly into the field. Numeric Spinner—(For Internet Explorer browsers only.) Users can click increment and decrement arrows (q and p) to increase or decrease the number in a field. Users can also directly edit numbers.
	Navigation	Horizontal Nav Bar—The field is a horizontal navigation field. Vertical Nav Bar—The field is a vertical navigation field. This property cannot be changed, so it is not possible to convert one type of navigation field to the other.	Progressive views support only vertical navigation.
	Panel holder	Specifies one of these display types: Tabbed—One panel is displayed at a time. Multiple panels are indicated by tabs. Collapsible (Stacked)—Multiple panels are displayed either horizontally or vertically. Splitter—Multiple panels are displayed either horizontally or a vertically. A splitter control can be dragged to change the size of adjacent panels. Accordion—One panel is displayed at a time; only headers of the remaining panels appear. When the header of another panel is selected, that panel is opened to display its contents. Flow Panel Holder—The Flow panel holder supports the properties required to enable a progressive view. Use the Flow Panel holder for aligning fields on the form. You can also group the fields to ensure proper alignment.
	Selection	Specifies one of these display types: Drop-Down List—Users can select from a list of choices. Radio Button—Users can select only one choice. Check Box—Users can select one or more items from a set of items.
	Table columns	See Setting column properties .
	Table fields	To support the Progress Bar widget, a new value called Progress Bar View is added. See Configuring the Progress bar widget in Progressive Web Applications and Adding a table field to a form.
Draggable	Data (all) Horizontal Line Vertical Line Trim Text Trim Box Button Tables (all except Results list) Attachment pool Panels (all)	(Web only) Specifies whether a field can be dragged to another field. This property creates only the effect of dragging. You must create workflow to copy and paste data between fields. (You can, however, configure workflow to execute on the drag event.) For more information, see Allowing users to drag and drop data. If you enable dragging and dropping between two attachment pool fields, they should each have only one attachment field because workflow cannot determine which field is being dragged or dropped. The default value of Draggable is false.	Progressive views supports only Data, Panels, Attachment Pool.
Drop Shadow	Panels (all) Panel holders	Specifies whether a panel, with rounded corners or not, or panel holder has a drop shadow. For more information, see Creating panel holders. For floating panels and panel holders, the default value of Drop Shadow is True. For non-floating panels and panel holders, the default value is False.	Progressive view supports only Panel holder.
Droppable	Data (all) Horizontal Line Vertical Line Trim Text Trim Box Button View DVF Tables (all, except Results List) Attachment Pool Panels (all)	(Web only) Specifies whether a field is highlighted when a user drags a field. For more information, see Allowing users to drag and drop data. This property allows the field to accept drop events that occur as a result of a user dragging a field and dropping on it. If you enable dragging and dropping between two attachment pool fields, they should each have only one attachment field because workflow cannot determine which field is being dragged or dropped. The default value of droppable is false.	Progressive views supports only Data, Panels, Attachment Pool.
Edit Menu/Navigation Items	Navigation	See Creating navigation fields.	Progressive views support only vertical navigation.
Enable Anchor Navigation	Flow Panel Holder	Specifies if anchor navigation is enabled. This property is enabled only when you set the orientation of a Flow Panel Holder to Vertical. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True If you set the value of this property to True for a Flow Panel Holder, you can't set the value of this property for any other Panel Holders on that view. See Modifying panels and panel holders.
Enable Clear	Character	Specifies whether a (clear) item appears on character field drop-down lists. Always—A (clear) item appears in all modes. This is the default setting. Search Only—A (clear) item appears in Search mode only. This property is appears in the Properties tab only when a menu is attached to the character field and the Display Type field property of the character field is set to Drop-Down List. See Adding and removing (clear) from drop-down lists.
Enabled	Data (all)	(Web only) Specifies whether a field is highlighted when a value is changed through a Set Fields action, and the color of the highlight. When set to True, you can specify a highlight start color and a highlight end color. The default value is false (highlight not enabled).
Enable Menu Hotkeys	Character	Specifies if the menu hotkeys are to be enabled. See Configuring the @mention component.
Enable Nested Row Reordering	Table - Cell Based, Table - List View	Specifies if nested row reordering is enabled in a table. This property enables you to drag and drop table rows within a table to perform reordering. This property can have the following values: True False (Default) See Defining tables to display data.
Enable Row Reordering	Table - Cell Based, Table - List View	Specifies if row reordering is enabled in a table. This property can have the following values: True False (Default) See Defining tables to display data.
Encrypt Data at Rest	Character fields	Allows the users to configure the field on a regular form and on a view form as confidential so that the data remains encrypted in the database. This option is applicable for any data field, provided the Entry Mode option is not set to Display only. Also, the Display only option is available for some of the data fields. The valid values are: True False (default) If the property is set to True, the AR System server encrypts the data for this field before updating the data to the database and also decrypt the data while reading it from the database. If the property is set to True for a field with existing data, the server does not encrypt the existing data automatically. To encrypt the existing data, you must export the data before you set the property to True and then re-import the data after the property is enabled. If the property is set to False for the field with existing data, the server does not decrypt the existing data automatically. You must export the data before you set the property to False and then re-import the data after the property is disabled. Important: If the property is set to True on a field, search on this field fails since the data in this field is encrypted. Ensure that you remove the field from all the qualification used for searching data. Consider the following tips: The property is ignored for Request ID field, Submitter field (field ID 2), Assigned To field (field ID 4), Password field (field ID 102), Encrypted string (field ID 123), locale related fields on message catalog (field ID 152 and field ID 160), GUID (field ID 179), Assignee Group (field ID 112), and Dynamic Group fields (60000-60999). A character field on the join form inherits this property from its member field. You can not explicitly set this property for a character field on a join form. Any changes made to the property on the member field is inherited by all the dependent fields in the join form(s). If you enable the property for character field on a vendor form, plugins are responsible to handle the encrypted data that are higher than the field length. If you enable the property on a character field in base mode, you cannot disable the property in overlay mode. If you have not enabled the property on a character field in base mode, you can enable the property in overlay mode. If you enable the property for a field for which FTS is already enabled, the server ignores the FTS settings for that field until the property is disabled.
End Color	Data (all)	(Web only) When the Enabled property is set to True, enables a smooth visual transition following a system action. For best results, select a color that matches the background color of the element on which the field resides, whether it is a panel or the form. The default color is white. For display as text fields, the default color is the background color of the form.
Entry Mode	Data (all) Attachment	Specifies one of these options (available options depend on field type): System—The field is populated by AR System . Certain core fields such as Request ID and Last Modified By are system fields. Required—Field requires a value, default, or user-entered, when a user submits a request. Required fields have a bold label. A form has at least three required fields: Submitter, Short Description, and Status. Make a field required only if it must be filled in for every new request. You can set the value of required fields, except the core fields to null via work flow and can save it to the database. Optional—Users can enter information in the field or leave it empty. If you have optional fields that must be filled in under certain circumstances, you can create filters and active links that force the user to fill in the field when specified conditions are met. Display—The field is used as a temporary field. No space is allocated for a display-only field in the database, so a display-only field value can never be recorded in the database. For this reason, display-only fields have a value of NULL when a request is retrieved. In all other ways, a display-only field can be used in the same way as any other field (for example, you can reference it in workflow). You can select this option only when you create a field. After you save a form, the following changes occur: For a required or optional field, the Display option is no longer available. For a display-only field, the Entry Mode property is disabled and cannot be changed. To improve system performance, use display-only fields to store temporary values or to perform calculations. Global fields (field IDs 1000001-2000000) must be display-only.
Expand Box	Character Currency Date Date/Time Diary Time	Specifies whether an expand button that opens a dialog box appears next to the field. Users can enter data for the field into the dialog box. Values are Default—Hides the expand button for character fields if the field length is less than 70 bytes. Displays the expand button for currency, date, date/time, diary, and time fields regardless of field length. Hide—Always hides the expand button. Note: If you need to perform any action on the hidden expand box, you must set the Expand by Workflow property to True. Show—Always displays the expand button. The dialog box opened by the expand button depends on the type of data that can be entered into the field. The button's icon shows the type of data: Character icon Currency icon Date and Date/Time icon Diary icon Time icon For character fields, This feature enables you to conserve space on the user's view of the form by making the field's display Data Length value smaller than its database Input Length value. The text dialog box supports text editor commands, such as Select All and Copy, which makes it easier to work with large amounts of data in the dialog box than directly in the character field. If you set the Display As Text property to True, you might want to hide the expand button. When a character field has an expand button, the field displays whole words only. To see the text beyond the words displayed in the field, open the text dialog box.
Expand by Workflow	Character	Use this property when the value for the Expand Box property is set to Hide. Specifies how user can add an expand button that opens a dialog box appears next to the field by using workflows. Users can enter data for the field into the dialog box. Values are: True (Default) False
Field Access	Alert list Button Table - Cell Based Horizontal line List view table Navigation (all) Results list Tree view table Trim text Trim box Vertical line	Specifies how the field is initially displayed: Enabled (default)—Results in an active field. Disabled—Results in an inactive (dimmed out) field.	Progressive Views support vertical navigation, buttons, cell-based table, and Trim text fields.
Field Access	Data (all)	Specifies how users initially access a field in the current view: Read Only—Users can read or access field information, but they cannot edit it. Read/Write (default)—Users can read, access (for example, copy), and edit field information. Disabled—Users can read field information, but they cannot access or edit it.
Field ID	All (join forms only)	For fields on join forms, specifies the integer that identifies the field internally throughout AR System server . This field is read-only. See Working with fields in join forms.
Field Name	All (joins forms only)	For fields on join forms, specifies the field's database name. This field is read-only. See Working with fields in join forms.
File Name Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
File Size Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in Progressive Web Applications by using a remote form.
Field Value To Define Images	Table - List View	Specifies whether to show only an image, or only text, or both the image and text in the column of a table. This property can have the following values: Clear (Default) Show Image Show Text Show Both Image and Text Learn how to use this property at To add images to a list-based table column.	(Available for PWA only.)
Filter	Table, Column	Specifies if a filter is enabled at table-level or column-level. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True
Filter Additional Options	Table Column	Use this to add a predefined filter value in progressive views. This property is available when the Column Filter property is set to True and it is mapped to a Character field, Date/Time filters, and auto-complete menu filters. This property opens a dialog where you must specify a value for Label to display in the UI and a value which is used in the qualification for this filter.	(Available only for PWA)
Filter Display Order	Column	Specifies the display order of the filter. This property is shown only when you set the value of the Column filter to True.
Filter External ID	Table	Specifies a field ID for a filter.
Filter QBE Match	Column	Specifies how a match is determined when a user performs a filter query-by-example (QBE). This property is shown only when you set the value of the Column filter to True. This property can have the following values: Anywhere Equals Leading (Default)
Filter Type	Table Cell Based Table List View	Specifies the type of filter that is to be applied to a table. This property can have the following values: Advanced (Default) Faceted See Creating a faceted filter and Creating an advanced filter.	(Available only for PWA.)
Filter Visibility	Table - List View	Specifies whether the filter is visible on the screen. This property is enabled only when you set the value of the Filter property to True. This property can have the following values: True (Default) False	(Available only for PWA.)
Filter Visibility	Table Column	Set this property to True to display a filter. This property is available in the Filter section. You can add this property if the column Filter property value is set to True. To know more about filters, see Creating an advanced filter.	(Available only for PWA.)
Fire workflow again on selected item	Navigation (all)	See Creating navigation fields.	Progressive view supports only vertical navigation.
Fit to Content	Panel (collapsible)	See Avoiding scroll bars in panels.
Fixed Headers	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Adding a table field to a form.
Float Style	Panel Panel holder	See Creating floating panels.	Progressive views support only panel holder. This field is read-only.
Form Name	All (join forms only)	For fields on join forms, specifies the name of the underlying form (primary or secondary) in which the field resides. This field is read-only. See Working with fields in join forms.
Full Text MFS Category Name	Character Diary Attachment	Specifies a category name for a field that is indexed for a full text search of multiple forms. (For more information, see Setting up FTS to search across multiple forms.) At index time, the server checks whether an entry has any fields with a category name (defined in the Full Text MFS Category Name field property). If so, the server also indexes the field as that category name as well.

Field properties G to L

Property	Field type	Description	Is this field supported in progressive views?
Generate Qualification	Table Column	Generates a filter qualification when end users select options. To set this property, the Filter property must be set to True and Table Type must set to Advanced. Use the following command in an active link along with the Generate Qualification property to fetch the generated qualification: PERFORM-ACTION-TABLECOLUMNGET-FILTERQUAL To learn more about this command, see Process commands. To know more about filters, see Creating an advanced filter.	(Available only for PWA)
Groups	Table	Creates a group of filters within one section. Click the property to launch a dialogue where you can define a group. This property is available only when you set the Filter Type to Advanced. Only the following filters types are allowed to be part of groups: Character This can be with or without a menu. Integer Selection This filter type is always rendered as checkboxes.	(Available only for PWA)
Header Background Color	Panel (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	Specifies the background color for the header in a panel.
Header State	Panel (collapsible, splitter)	Specifies whether the panel header is visible or hidden. The default is Visible.
Hide Empty Column	Column	Specifies if the column that contains no data is to be hidden. To enable this property, you must set the value for the Initial State property to Expandable. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True When you set the value for this property to True, a column that contains no data is hidden. Learn how to set the column properties at Setting column properties.
Hide Expand Column if Empty	Column	Specifies if the expand option for the column is not to be shown when there is no data available in it. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True When you set the value for this property to True, the expand option is not displayed if all columns are empty. Learn how to set the column properties at Setting column properties.
Height	All	Specifies the height of the fields in pixels. In a Progressive Web App (PWA), you can use this property to set the height of a thumbnail image.
Help Text	All	Specifies the Help text for a field. To enter Help text, select this property, click its ellipsis button, enter text in the Help Text dialog box, and click OK. For information about creating help text, see Creating help for applications.
Horizontal Button Alignment	Column	Specifies the horizontal alignment of a button in a column. Double-click the column in a table to view the Horizontal Button Alignment property on the Properties pane in Developer Studio. This property can have the following values: Left (Default) Center Right Learn how to set the column properties at Setting column properties.
Horizontal Space	Cell-based table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Icon	Character, Button, Vertical Navigation, Panels	Specifies a placeholder icon that you can select from a specific set of options. To know what predefined icons are available in Developer Studio for a Progressive Web App (PWA), see Icons available in Developer Studio to support PWA. For progressive views, a new property called Icon is added for the Vertical Navigation field. See Navigation fields. For an anchorable panel, you can use this property to add an icon. This property is honored only when you set the value for the Anchorable property of a panel to True. See Modifying panels and panel holders.
Icon Position	Character, Button	Specifies the position of an icon, such as Left or Right.
ID	All	Identifies the field internally throughout AR System . Every field in a form must have an integer field ID that is unique in that form. If you leave the ID field empty or set it to zero, AR System automatically assigns a number from the unrestricted number set. Restrictions on field ID numbers are as follows: Numbers 1-99 are reserved for core fields. You cannot assign an ID in this range unless you are modifying core fields. See Core fields. Numbers 100-536868911 are reserved. If you use an ID in this range, you receive a warning. Numbers 1000000-1999999 are reserved for regular global fields and 3000000-3999999 are reserved for window-scoped global fields. For information about global fields, see Creating global fields. Numbers 536868912-2147483647 are administrator-defined. There are no restrictions on assigning numbers in this range. If you choose to assign field IDs instead of letting AR System do it automatically, be aware that view IDs are also drawn from the low end of this range. Columns in table fields and panels in panel holders also have an ID. To assign order in workflow, you can assign the ID yourself or let AR System assign the number for you. The field ID remains constant even if the database name or display label changes. You cannot modify the field ID after it is saved to the database. If you define fields that serve the same purpose in more than one form, assign identical IDs to the identical fields in the different forms. You can then write workflow once for that field (with minor edits to AR System field definition) and reuse the field in multiple forms. Reusing the ID provides a consistent definition for the field across forms.
Image	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Image Attachment	Character	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Image Position	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Index for FTS	Attachment Character Diary	If you are licensed for full text search, specifies whether to index a character, diary, or attachment field for FTS.
Initial Currency Type	Currency	See Creating currency fields.
Initial Panel	Panel holder (accordion)	Specifies the first panel displayed in an accordion panel holder. To select the initial panel, click the property's Value cell, click the arrow button that appears in the cell, and select a panel from the drop-down list.
Initial Row Selection	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Initial Size	Panel (splitter, collapsible)	Specifies the size of the panel when it is initially created in a collapsible or splitter panel holder.
Initial Value	Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Setting column properties.
Label for Empty Value	All Data fields	For progressive views, this new property is added. As a value for this property, you can specify a string for an empty value in a Data field, for example, "None" or "-". The default value for this field is empty. See Data fields.
Left Padding	Flow Panel Holder	An element's padding is the space between its content and its border. This property sets the left padding (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) 0 1 2 3 4 5
Left Margin	Flow Panel Holder	An element's margin is the space around the element and outside of any defined borders. This property sets the left margin (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Input Length	Character	Specifies the maximum number of bytes or characters, depending on the value of Length Units property, that the field can contain. Leaving this property empty or setting it to 0 specifies an unlimited length. To use database storage most efficiently, set the Input Length of a character field so that it will be created as a varchar database table row. Storage for a varchar is allocated dynamically to the length of the actual field contents, not the input length. See Types of data fields for the maximum values for varchar storage for each database. If you set the Input Length to more than the maximum for varchar, the character field is created as a clob database table column and storage is allocated in blocks that average between 1K to 2K bytes (depending on the database). A full block is allocated for the first byte. When that block is filled with the field contents, another full block is allocated. To control CLOB storage in an Oracle database, see the description of "CLOB Storage" in this section. For more information about database structure in AR System , see the How the AR System database manages data. Do not use more space than you need to store the intended field contents. If you allocate more space for storage than your system needs, more space is searched during queries. If the Expand Box property is set to Default and the field length is 70 or more bytes, AR System automatically inserts an expand button to the right of the field that users can click to open a text dialog box. This can conserve space on the user's view of the form by making the field's Data Length smaller than its Input Length property. The default maximum input length for character fields is different for each of these databases: Microsoft SQL Server: 2 GB Oracle: 4 GB For scalability reasons, limit the number of long character fields in a form. To configure a different maximum input length for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases, use the Db-Max-Text-Size option in the AR System configuration files. See Configuration settings C-D. You cannot use the Indexes form property to create an index for a long or character field with an Input Length over 255 bytes. But if you are licensed for full text search, you can use the Index for FTS field property to create a search index for the field. For more information about FTS, see Enabling and disabling full text search. For some databases, you cannot search fields that are over 255 bytes. See How the AR System database manages data and information in Installing in BMC Helix Innovation Suite Deployment online documentation.
Label	Application list Attachment Composite (all) Data (all) DVF Navigation (all) View	Specifies a label for the field in the current form view. You can enter a label with as many as 80 characters that describes the meaning and purpose of the field. The label can include spaces and double-byte characters. Avoid using spaces at the beginning of field labels; such spaces do not appear in some browsers. If you leave this property empty, the field appears on the screen with no label. For tree view table fields, if this property has text, it becomes the root of the tree. The label need not be unique. However, if duplicate field labels exist in a form, AR System issues a warning message every time you apply changes to the form unless you disable the Developer Studio preferences for duplicate blank and nonblank field label warnings. You can use single quotation marks in field labels; however, when performing searches, users must enter two single quotation marks when specifying the quotation mark in the label. This is required because field labels that contain special characters must be enclosed in single quotation marks in searches, and a single quotation mark in the label is otherwise interpreted as the end of the field label.	Progressive views do not support Application list and horizontal navigation.
Label Align	Data (all)	Aligns labels to the top, center, or bottom of the region available for the label. The default is Top for labels located to the left of the field. The default is Bottom for labels located above the field. See Arranging fields in a form view. For text fields with one row, when this property is set to Top, labels appear in the center in a browser. See the "Rows" description in this section.
Label Font	Button Data (all) Panel (all)	Specifies a font type for the field label. In a default regular form, each label style identifies a different field behavior: Italic—Field is maintained and automatically updated by AR System . Bold—Field requires a value. Plain—Field value is optional. As the administrator, you can override the properties of the default font types, but do so cautiously to avoid confusing users. In addition, users can use preferences to change the fonts assigned to font types. All fields with the same type remain consistent. To change a label font: Select the field. In the Properties tab, select a new font type in the Label Font drop-down list. In the Data Font drop-down list, select a font type for data entered into the field if applicable. For Progressive Views, the following additional values are added in Developer Studio for this property: Header Text (IV) Header Text (V) Header Text (VI) Success Info Warning Error Important Header Text (IV), Header Text (V), and Header Text (VI) are available only for character fields. For the description of the font types, see Data Font. This property is also added to the Change Field active link action in Developer Studio for the Button Field. See Defining Change Field active link actions .
Label Justify	Button (URL style) Data (all) Trim text	Specifies where label text is positioned relative to the left and right edges of the text box: Left, Center, or Right.	Progressive views do not support Data field.
Label Location	Data (all)	Specifies where a data field's label appears in relation to the field: Top (above the field) or Left (default).
Label/Text Color	Button Data (all) Panel (all) Trim text	Specifies the color of the field's label or text. For a data field, the label appears to the left of a field or above it. For a panel field, the label appears in the panel header. Colors are set one field at a time. To change label or text color: Select the appropriate field. In the Properties tab, select Custom in the Label/Text Color drop-down list. Select a color from the color palette, and click OK. This property is added to the Change Field active link action in Developer Studio . See Defining Change Field active link actions .
Last Changed By	All	Specifies the user name of the last person who modified the field. This read-only field is automatically set.
Last Changed Time	All	Specifies the date and time that the field was last modified. This read-only field is automatically set.
Layout Style	Cell-based table Panel (all)	XY—Specifies that field locations in the cell or panel are set by X and Y coordinates and sized by width and height. Fill— Specifies that fields are dynamically resized within the cell or panel. The Fill LAyout option is not supported for cell-based table fields. Flow—Specifies that RTF fields are dynamically resized within the panel. See Panel layout styles and Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.	Progressive views support Cell-based table. This is a read-only field.
Length Units	Character	In Regular forms, specifies whether the Input Length of a character field is calculated in Bytes or Characters. The default is Bytes, which is the Input Length unit for all character fields in AR System server release 7.1.00 and earlier. Because character sets use varying numbers of bytes to represent a single character, setting the Length Units property to Characters allows better control of character field sizes in the database. When creating or resizing a database column corresponding to a field with a Length Units value of Characters, AR System server applies a multiplier to calculate the column size for the field. The multiplier is determined by the server character set and the database code unit. The server uses the following multiplier values: 1—WESTERN character set. 2—UTF-8 with Microsoft SQL Server, GB2312, Big-5, EUC-CN, Shift-JIS, KSC-5601, and EUC-KR character sets. 3—EUC-JP character set. 4—UTF-8 (except Microsoft SQL Server), EUC-TW. For example, when you create a character field with a Length Units value of Characters and an Input Length of 100 on a UTF-8 platform, the corresponding column is 200 nvarchar in a Microsoft SQL Server database (multiplier value of 2), or 400 char in other databases (multiplier value of 4). For the core fields Request ID, Submitter, Assigned To, and Last Modified By, you can only set Length Units to Bytes. The Short Description field can use either Bytes or Characters. For Bytes, it is limited to an Input Length of 255; for Characters it is limited to Input Length 63. Developer Studio does not display the Length Units property if the AR System server is release 7.1.00 or earlier. To configure the default value of this property, in Developer Studio , select Window > Preferences > Form, and set the Input Length Units value. In Display Only and Vendor forms, this property works with the Data Length field to restrict the length of the information to display. In Join forms and View forms, this property reflects the setting for the mapped field in the underlying form or database table.
Line Color	Horizontal line Panel Trim box Vertical line	Specifies the color of the line: Select the appropriate field. In the Properties tab, set Depth Effect to None. Select Custom in the Line Color drop-down list. Select a color from the color palette, and click OK.
Literal FTS Index	Character	Specifies whether the FTS engine should use the literal method to search the contents of all requests indexed for the field. For more information about FTS, see Enabling and disabling full text search. This property is enabled when the Index For FTS property is set to True.
Localization Required	All	Specifies whether a field label must be translated. By default, this property is set to False. When this property is set to True, attribute 287 in the field definition is set to 1. To ascertain which fields must be translated, localizers can search .def files for the display-instance setting 287\6\1, where 287 is the ID of the localization indicator attribute. 6 is the data type for the attribute and can be ignored. 1 is the attribute value that indicates localization is required.
Localize Data	Data (all) Attachment	Specifies whether configuration data can be localized for the form. The options are True and False (the default).
Localize Label	All	Specifies whether the field label can be localized for the form. The options are True (the default) and False.

Field properties M to P

Property	Field type	Description	Is this field supported in progressive views?
Mapping Identifier	Table fields	To support the Progress Bar widget, this property is added in Developer Studio . See Configuring the Progress bar widget in Progressive Web Applications.
Maintain Aspect Ratio	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Margin Bottom	Cell-based table Panel holder (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	For cell-based tables, specifies the space between the bottom of the cell-based table field and the last row of cells. Specify in points. For panel holders, specifies the amount of space between the bottom border of the panel holder and the bottom edge of the panels in it. If the bottom margin size is too large to allow all of the panels to be displayed, a vertical scroll bar appears.
Margin Left	Cell-based table Panel holder (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	For cell-based tables, specifies the space between the left side of the cell-based table field and the first column of cells. Specify in points. For panel holders, specifies the amount of space between the left border of the panel holder and the left edge of the panels in it.
Margin Right	Cell-based table Panel holder (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	For cell-based tables, specifies the space between the right side of the cell-based table field and the last column of cells. Specify in points. For panel holders, specifies the amount of space between the right border of the panel holder and the right edge of the panels in it.
Margin Top	Cell-based table Panel (accordion, collapsible, splitter)	For cell-based tables, specifies the space between the top of the cell-based table field and the first row of cells. Specify in points. For panel holders, specifies the amount of space between the top border of the panel holder and the top edge of the panels in it. If the top margin size is too large to allow all of the panels to be displayed, a vertical scroll bar appears.
Max Rows	Alert list List view table Cell-based table Results list Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Max Size	Attachment	See Managing attachments in interfaces by creating attachment pools.
Maximum	Integer	Specifies the highest integer value that users can enter in the field during data submission and modification. By default, integer fields accept integer values between -2147483647 and 2147483647.
Maximum	Currency Decimal Real	Specifies the highest value that the field can have during data submission and modification. This setting is required.
Maximum Height	Character	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Maximum Height	View field or DVF	Specifies the maximum height of the view field or DVF in pixels. If you enable Auto Resize along with Maximum Height, the view field increases in size to accommodate the content until the field reaches the height specified for this property.	(Available only for PWA)
Maximum Size	Panel (splitter)	Specifies the maximum size allowed for a panel in a splitter panel holder.
Menu Container	Panel	Specifies that the panel is a container of panels. It can contain sub-panels, list of sub-container panels, section panels, and hidden panels.	(Available only for PWA)
Menu Fixed	Panel	This property is not supported.
Menu Hidden	Panel	Specifies that the panel hides all the fields it contains when displayed on PWA screens.	(Available only for PWA)
Menu Mobile	Panel	This property is not supported.
Menu Name	Character Table - List View	Attaches a character menu to a character field and inserts a menu button to the right of the field. Character menus provide users with a fill-in aid that can help standardize the text contents and thereby improve the accuracy of searches. Unless you specify a pattern match (see the description of "Pattern" in this section) or change the display type to Drop-Down List (see the description of "Display type" in this section), users can enter their own text even when a character menu is attached to the field. To attach a menu, select it in the property's drop-down list. The $NULL$ option allocates space for the menu button, but hides the button in the user's client. When you use the Change Field action to associate a menu, the menu button appears without disrupting form layout. See Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links. For information about designing and creating a character menu, see Creating character menus. For the Table - List View field, specifies the name of the menu when the following conditions are true: For a column in a table, the value for the Filter property is set to True. The column is mapped to a character field.
Menu Name	Table Column	Specifies a search menu for the filter. You have to set the type Search for the menu. You can use this only when the Filter property value is set to True and is mapped to a character field. This property takes precedence over the Menu Name property under Attributes of the character field.	(Available only for PWA)
Menu Hotkeys	Character	Use this property to define hotkey definitions. See Configuring the @mention component.
Menu Section	Panel	Specifies that the panel is a container that holds other fields or objects. A panel with the Display > Type property set to Menu Section retains the relative positions of the fields that it encloses when displayed on the PWA screen. The following example illustration shows two fields within the menu section positioned one above another in Developer Studio are displayed one above another on PWA screens as well. Menu Section is similar to the Section Panel property, except that Section Panel does not retain the relative positions of the fields on PWA screens. For more information, see Section Panel.	(Available only for PWA)
Menu Style	Character	Specifies how menu text is added to the field when users select an item from a character menu: Append—Text is added to any text already in the field. If text is in the field, a blank space is inserted before the menu text value is appended. Overwrite—Text replaces any text already in the field.
Menu Width	Character	Applicable for the all the character fields that have a menu associated with them. The value for this property can be a number starting from 0 and the type of this property is Integer. Menu width is the width of the drop-down menu. The menu width is always relative to the width of the character field. To set the menu width: In the Menu Name property, specify a menu name by clicking the ellipsis button, and then selecting a menu. In the Menu Width property, enter an integer value, for example, 100.
Minimum	Integer	Specifies the lowest integer value that users can enter in the field during data submission and modification. By default, integer fields accept integer values between -2147483647 and 2147483647.
	Currency Decimal Real	Specifies the lowest value that the field can have during data submission and modification. This setting is required.
Minimum Height	View fields and DVF	Specifies a minimum height to the view field or DVF. If the content within the view takes up less space than the value for Min Height, the view displays a blank space.	(Available only for PWA)
Minimum Size	Panel (splitter)	Specifies the minimum size allowed for a panel in a splitter panel holder.
Mode	Application list	Specifies whether the entry points in an application list field are presented as a traditional list, or with the appearance of a vertical navigation bar: Traditional—The application list appears in the traditional AR System Home Page format, with entry points displayed as links. Flyout—The application list looks like a vertical navigation bar, and entry points are displayed as flyout options. See Navigation fields.
Module Type	DVF	Specifies the module type for the data visualization field: flashboard, report, or visualizer. See Data visualization fields and Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links.
Mouseover Effect	Button	Displayed only when you set the value of the Display as Flat Image property to True. Specifies what shape does a mouse pointer take and whether the button is displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over a button. This property can have the following values: None—The mouse pointer takes the shape of an arrow. The button is not displayed. Button—The mouse pointer takes the shape of a hand. The button is displayed. Pointer Cursor (Default)—The mouse pointer takes the shape of a hand. The button is not displayed. See Adding images to buttons.
Name	All	Identifies the field in the database. Every field in a form must have an alphanumeric field name that is unique in that form. Names can have up to 80 characters, including spaces. They can include double-byte characters, but avoid using numbers at the beginning of a name. If you leave this property empty, Developer Studio generates a name based on the field type and appends a number to the name to make it unique. For example, if the form has a field named Column1, Developer Studio names the next field of the same type Column2. Do not use the keyword FUNCTION as a field name; if you do, the system generates an error, and the underlying database view is not created. If you create a field with a dollar sign ($) or an apostrophe (') in the database name, you must double the dollar sign or the apostrophe when using the field in workflow in addition to adding the surrounding characters. For example, a field named MyMoney$ must be entered in workflow as $MyMoney$$$, and a field named John's Money must be 'John''s Money'. The field name is easier to use than the field ID when you create workflow such as active links and filters. Unlike the field label, the field name is not specific to a view of the form. Do not confuse the field Name with the field Label, especially when creating workflow. To avoid naming conflicts with the database server, do not use a word reserved by the database server software as a field name. See your database documentation for a list of reserved words.
Navigation Initial State	Navigation (all)	See Creating navigation fields.
Navigation Mode	Vertical navigation	Indicates the options for displaying vertical navigation menu items. Expandable—Submenu items are displayed in a vertical list expanded below the parent menu item. Flyout—Submenu items are displayed in a vertical list expanded to the right of the parent menu item.
New Description	All	Records information about a field change. To create a change description, select the New Description property, click its ellipsis button, and enter a description into the New Description dialog box. When you next save the field, your entry is moved to the Change History property, where it is stored in read-only diary format.
Next Label	Cell-based table List view table Results list	See the description of "Next Label" and "Size of Chunk" in this section.
Number of Entries Returned	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Opacity	Panel (all)	Specifies the degree of transparency of the panel's background color. If the panel does not have a background color, this property is unavailable. See Creating panels.
Order Column ID	Cell-based table, List View Table	Stores the order column ID. This is a text field. See Defining tables to display data.
Orientation	Horizontal line Vertical line Panel holder (accordion, collapsible, splitter, and Flow Panel holder)	Specifies the orientation of a line: Vertical or Horizontal. For panel holders, specifies the orientation of the panel headers: Vertical or Horizontal.	Progressive views supports only Panel holder
Owner	All	Identifies the author of each entry in the Change History property.
Panel Border Color	Cell-based Table	Specifies the color of the panel border of a table. The default value for this property is RGB {0,0,0}. See Setting table colors.
Panel Border Thickness	Cell-based Table	Specifies the thickness of the panel border of a table. The default value for this property is 1. See Setting table colors.
Panel Bottom Margin	Panel	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Panel Left Margin	Panel	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Panel Right Margin	Panel	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field
Panel State	Panel (collapsible)	Specifies whether a panel in a collapsible panel holder is expanded or collapsed. The default is Expand.
Panel Top Margin	Panel	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Panels	Panel holder (all)	See Creating panel holders.
Parent Entity ID	Survey Component	Specifies the field ID of the form that holds the record ID.
Parent field	Panel holder (all)	Parent field property is automatically set for a field when you place a field on panel.
Pattern	Character	Restricts what users can enter into the field. You can specify two types of character patterns: Specify a character pattern that the value must match. It is similar to that used in the LIKE operator and can include any of the same wildcard characters (see Operators). Use a keyword to specify a style for a character field. You can specify only one of the following keywords for a pattern, and it cannot be combined with a pattern of characters and wildcards: $ALNUM$—The value must be alphabetic characters and digits (and blank space). $ALPHA$—The value must be alphabetic characters (and blank space). $DIGIT$—The value must be digits. $LOWER$—The value can be any character except uppercase letters. This includes special characters, digits, and blank spaces. $MENU$—The value must match an item defined in the default menu attached to the field. Do not use $MENU$ together with a Change Field workflow action that attaches a new menu (with new values) to the field. You cannot use the $MENU$ keyword with a file menu or a data dictionary menu. You cannot use the $MENU$ keyword with a search menu if the search menu qualification includes a field value from the current screen or with an SQL menu if the WHERE clause of the query includes a field value from the current screen. $PRINT$—The value must be printable characters. $UPPER$—The value can be any character except lowercase letters. This includes special characters, digits, and blank spaces. The way that keywords are interpreted is language-dependent. For example, $LOWER$ is not valid in Japanese, and $MENU$ is not valid in a multilingual environment.
Pause Interval	Character	Specifies the time interval in milliseconds. This property accepts only an integer value. In Progressive Web Application (PWA), when a user types in a character field, the relevant helpful resources need to be shown to the user based on what is being typed. If the resources are shown for every letter that the user types, it becomes very cumbersome. To avoid this problem, you can specify a pause interval for a workflow by using this property in Developer Studio. When you specify a pause interval for a workflow, after the user presses any key on the keyboard except the Enter key, the PWA pauses for the specified milliseconds before triggering a predefined workflow. However, when the user presses the Enter key, the PWA immediately triggers the workflow without pausing. To learn more about this property, see Adding a pause interval in a character field for a workflow in PWA.	(Available only for PWA)
Permissions	All	Specifies which users have access to the field. To assign field permissions, select the Permissions property, click its ellipsis button, and use the Permissions dialog box. For more detail, see Field permissions.
Precision	Decimal	Specifies the number of decimal places displayed in the user's view. The default setting is 2 and the maximum value of precision in AR System is 9.
Precision	Real	Specifies the number of decimal places displayed in the user's view. The displayed number is rounded off, but the value stored in the database is not changed.
Preferences	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Previous Label	Cell-based table List view table Results list	See the description of "Size of Chunk" in this section.
Progressbar Field	Table Column	This new property is added for the Column field in a table, which holds the information about mapping with a field on the client-side. See Configuring the Progress bar widget in Progressive Web Applications.
Progressive Width	Flow Panel Holder All Panels	Specifies the width of an element in the twelve-column layout when you position elements horizontally on the screen. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, and Progressive-Tablet property groups. The following can be the values for this property: 1/12 2/12 3/12 4/12 5/12 6/12 7/12 8/12 9/12 10/12 11/12 12/12 Auto—Occupies the remaining width out of 12 columns in a panel structure. However, the width percentage, once rendered, doesn't change even if you hide the adjoining panels. Fill — Occupies the remaining width out of 12 columns in a panel structure. Also fills the remaining space horizontally when you hide the adjoining panels. For more information, see Developing a Progressive Web Application.

Field properties Q to Z

Property	Field type	Description	Is this field supported in progressive views?
Qualification Field ID	Survey Component	Holds the field ID from the current form. The current form contains the qualification. Based on this qualification, data is obtained from the Component Definition.
QBE Match	Character	Specifies how a match is determined when a user performs a query-by-example (QBE) in the Mid Tier : Anywhere (default)—Finds a match if the entered value occurs anywhere in the corresponding field. For example, if a user enters Bob in the Submitter field, the search returns all requests submitted by Bobby Jones, Bob Smith, and Jill Bobbington. Leading—Finds a match only if the entered value occurs at the beginning of the corresponding field. For example, if a user enters Bob in the Submitter field, the search returns all requests submitted by Bob Smith and Bobby Jones but not those submitted by Jill Bobbington. Equal—Finds a match only if the entered value matches the value in the corresponding field exactly. For example, to find requests submitted by Bob Smith, the user must enter Bob Smith, with exact spelling and capitalization, in the Submitter field. However, for some databases (such as Microsoft SQL Server), case-sensitivity depends on the underlying DBMS settings, regardless of the specified QBE Match. Equal and Leading generally provide better performance than Anywhere. Use them wherever they are appropriate. You can use the Preferences dialog box (Window > Preferences) to set a default QBE match type for all new character fields that are not core fields. A search on a character field with the QBE match type Anywhere performs a full table scan of the database, reading every record in a form and ignoring any indexes for the field. Searches on fields with the QBE match type Leading or Equal are typically faster than searches on fields with the match type Anywhere, especially if the field is indexed. See Defining indexes. Some relational operators and wildcards work during a QBE regardless of the QBE Match setting. This means that users can specify an exact match in a field with the QBE Match setting Anywhere by using the equal sign (=) relational operator. Users can also use the percent sign (%) wildcard at the beginning of the search string ( %abcd ) to override the QBE Match setting Leading or Equal. Using the % wildcard anywhere else in a string (abcd% ) does not override the Equal setting. Overriding the Leading or Equal settings overrides the performance benefits of using those settings. The behaviors described above refer to searching a database. However, the fields configured for Full Text Search (FTS) exhibit full text search behavior.
Question Font	Survey Component	Specifies the font of the question. This property is displayed only when you set the value for the Display As Text property to True. This property can have the following values: Detail Text Edit Field Header Text (I) Header Text (II) Header Text (III) Note Text Optional Field Push Button Radio Button Required Field System Field
Read Button	Alert list	See Customizing table labels.
Refresh Button	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Refresh on Entry Change	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Refresh Row Selection	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Remote/Local Fields	Cell-based table	Opens a dialog box used to add columns to tables. See Adding a table field to a form.
Render Data As Thumbnail	Table - List View	Specifies if the image in a column of a table is displayed as a thumbnail. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True Learn how to set column properties in a table at Setting column properties.	(Available only for PWA.)
Report Button	Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Results Color	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	In a list-view table, use this property to set a font color and a background color for the table. Learn how to set font color and background color at Setting the font color and background color for a list view table.
Right Padding	Flow Panel Holder	An element's padding is the space between its content and its border. This property sets the right padding (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) 0 1 2 3 4 5
Right Margin	Flow Panel Holder	An element's margin is the space around the element and outside of any defined borders. This property sets the right margin (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Rounded Corners	Panel (all) Flow Panel Tab Panel	Specifies the radius of roundness for the corners of a panel. The default is blank (no rounded corners). Rounded corners are shown in Developer Studio .
Row Header	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Row Selection	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Adding a table field to a form.
Rows	Character Diary	Specifies the number of rows of text that are displayed.	Progressive views support only the character field.
	Check box Drop-down list Radio button	For radio buttons, specifies the number of rows used for selection options. A setting of 1 produces one horizontal row. A setting of 2 divides the options into two horizontal rows, and so on. For other types of selection fields, this property cannot be changed.
	Table Column	For a character field in a column of a nested table, this property specifies the number of rows of text that are displayed. The default value for this property is 5. You can set any value that is greater than or equal to 5. However, if you set any value that is lesser than 5, Developer Studio sets the value that you had set earlier (either 5 or greater than 5). For a nested table, set the value for the Initial State property to Expanded, and then specify a value for this property. In a progressive view, the specified number of rows are displayed along with a Show more button. When you click Show more, full text is displayed along with a Show less button.
Save Label	Attachment pool	See Managing attachments in interfaces by creating attachment pools.
Scale Image to Fit	Button	See Adding images to buttons.
Scroll Bar	Application list DVF View	Specifies how scroll bars are displayed: Default—Displays scroll bars only when the field content does not fit completely within the field. Show—Always displays scroll bars. Hide—Always hides scroll bars. If the content of a field (such as a AR System form) has its own scroll bars, they appear even if you hide scroll bars for the field itself. If you can hide the scroll bars of the content, you can remove all scroll bars from the field.
Section Panel	Panel	Specifies that the panel is a container that holds other fields or objects. A panel with the Display > Type property set to Section Panel does not retain the relative positions of the fields it encloses when displayed on PWA screens. The following illustration shows an example of two fields arranged one above another in Developer Studio . However, on a PWA screen, they are displayed side-by-side. To see how to retain the relative positions of the fields on PWA screens, see Menu Section.	(Available only for PWA)
Select All	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Select Column Label	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list	See Customizing table labels.
Select item on click	Navigation (all)	See Creating navigation fields.
Selections	Check box Drop-down list Radio button	See Creating selection fields.
Server	DVF	Specifies the AR System server that contains the data visualization module. See Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links.
Show Apply Button	Table - List View Table - Cell Based	Specifies if the Apply filters button is to be shown on the filter. In addition, it also displays the Cancel and Remove all, buttons. This property is available in the Filter section only when you set the Filter Type to Advanced. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True	(Available only for PWA)
Show as URL	Column	Specifies if the text in a column of a table is shown as a URL. When you click the URL, an active link is executed. In a nested table, this property is honored in progressive views for a column of type character. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True When you set the value for this property to True, the text is shown as a hyperlink in the character column. Learn how to set the column properties at Setting column properties.
Show URL	Character	Specifies whether a URL is made active when a user types a URL address (such as http://www.bmc.com) into a character field. The default is False, which means the URL does not become active within the field. If the field is not empty and Show URL is set to True, users cannot directly type into the field. They must open the expand box to edit the contents of the field.
Size	Button	Specifies the size of an icon. This property can have the following values: Extra-Small Small Extra-Large Large Block - Occupies the full width of its parent panel. See Button fields and Creating button fields.
Slack Distribution Order	Panel	See Avoiding scroll bars in panels.
Show Border	Cell-based Table, List View Table	For progressive views, this property specifies if the border in a table field is shown. The following can be the values for this property: True (Default) False See Defining tables to display data .
Show Badge	Tabbed Panel Holder	Specifies if a child component is visible. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True See Panel holder display types.
Show as tab on mobile	Tabbed Panel Holder	Specifies if a child component is visible. It distinguishes if a panel is for mobile devices or for other devices. This property can have the following values: False (Default) True See Panel holder display types.
Sort	Cell-based table	See Setting sort order and visible levels.
Sort/Levels	Alert list List view table Results list Tree view table	See Setting sort order and visible levels.
Splitter State	Panel holder (splitter)	Specifies whether the splitter bars between panels in a splitter panel holder are visible and can be dragged to resize the panels. The default is Visible. Visible—The splitter bar is visible and can be dragged. Disabled—The splitter bar is not visible and cannot be dragged. Invisible—The splitter bar is not visible but can be dragged.
Start Color	Data (all)	(Web only) When the Enabled property is set to True, enables selection of a color for the highlight based on the theme of the form, background color, and other factors. If no highlight start color is specified, the Mid Tier uses the default color of yellow.
Sub Level Background Color	Vertical Navigation bar	The sub level alternate background color. This setting is applicable only to Vertical Navigation Bar in the Flyout mode.
Tab Order	Application list Button Composite (all) Data (all) DVF Navigation (all) Trim text View	Specifies the order in which the field is selected when users press the TAB key. See Setting the tab order of fields in a form view.	Progressive views do not support Application list field.
Tab Type	Tabbed Panel Holder	Specifies the tab type. This property is of type Enumeration. It can have the following values: Tabs (Integer value = 1) Pills (Integer value = 2) Inverted (Integer value = 3) Bordered (Integer value = 4) Stacked (Integer value = 5) See Panel holder display types.
Table	All (view and vendor forms only)	Specifies the name of the database table associated with the field. This field is read-only. For more information, see Types of forms and Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links.
Table Drill Down	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Adding a table field to a form.
Table Header Footer Gradient Background Color	Tables (all) Attachments	For tables, this property specifies the color for the header and footer. For attachments, this property specifies the color for the footer. (Attachments do not support header).
Table Not Loaded String	Cell-based table List view table	See Customizing table labels.
Tabless Borderless	Panel holder (tabbed)	See Creating panel holders.
Text	Trim text	See Creating trim fields.
Text	View	See View fields.
Text Align	Trim text	See Creating trim fields.
Text Rotation	Trim text	See Creating trim fields.
Text Style	Trim text	For progressive views, the following new values are added to the Text Style property for the Trim Text field: Success Info Warning Error See Trim fields and Creating trim fields.
Tree/Table Property	Alert list List view table Results list Tree view table	Opens a dialog box used to add columns to tables. See Adding a table field to a form.
Thickness	Horizontal line Panel Trim box Vertical line	Specifies a line width of 1 to 9 pixels. The default is 2. Thickness cannot be changed if the Depth Effect is Etched.
Thumbnail Extension	Character	For the new display type Thumbnail, this property can have a comma separated list of file extensions, such as PNG and JPEG as its value.	This property is available for use in Developer Studio version later than 20.08.
Thumbnail Height	Table - List View	Specifies the height in pixels for a thumbnail. Enter an integer as a value for this property. This property is visible only when the Render Data As Thumbnail property is set to True. Learn how to set column properties in a table at Setting column properties.	(Available only for PWA)
Thumbnail Width	Table - List View	Specifies the width in pixels for a thumbnail. Enter an integer as a value for this property. This property is visible only when the Render Data As Thumbnail property is set to True. Learn how to set column properties in a table at Setting column properties.	(Available only for PWA)
Tooltip Icon	Integer Character Select Date Time Date/Time Check Box Real Decimal Radio Button	Select an icon for the tooltip. You can add icon names from the list at Icons available in Developer Studio to support PWA. For information about adding icons, see Adding icons in Developer Studio.	(Available only for PWA)
Tooltip Trigger		Select a user action that displays the tooltip: Click (Default) Hover	(Available only for PWA)
Tooltip Text/Template		Enter the text that is displayed in the tooltip. To add the tooltip text through a template, enter template:templateName. Where *templateName* is the value you enter in the Name field of the Resource Definition form. For information about using resource definitions, see Resources for templates.	(Available only for PWA)
Top Padding	Flow Panel Holder	An element's padding is the space between its content and its border. This property sets the top padding (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) 0 1 2 3 4 5
Top Margin	Flow Panel Holder	An element's margin is the space around the element and outside of any defined borders. This property sets the top margin (space) of an element. You can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The values for this property can be: None (Default) -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Toolbar Visibility	Cell-based Table, List View Table	For progressive views, this property specifies if the toolbar in a table field is visible. The following can be the values for this property: True (Default) False See Defining tables to display data.
Unread	Alert list	See Customizing table labels.
URL Color	Button	See Creating button fields.
URL Color	Trim text	See Adding a URL to a trim text field.
Use Locale	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Setting table refresh intervals.
Use Value as Qualification	Column	Specifies whether to use the qualification in the value of a Menu field as is when you apply a filter. This property is shown only when: The value of a filter is True The Column field is Character with menu This property can have the following values: False True
Vendor	All (vendor form only)	For fields on vendor forms, specifies the vendor name. For more information, see Types of forms and Using buttons and menu bar items to execute active links .
Vertical Button Alignment	Column	Specifies the vertical alignment of a button in a column. Double-click the column in a table to view the Vertical Button Alignment property on the Properties pane in Developer Studio. This property can have the following values: Top Center (Default) Bottom Learn how to set the column properties at Setting column properties.
Vertical Space	Cell-based table	See "Vertical Space" in Adding a table field to a form.
Vertical Spacing	Panel	See Adding rich-text-formatting capabilities to a character field.
Views	All except table columns	Specifies the form views in which a field appears. See Including and excluding fields from form views. New fields are automatically added to the current view. Depending on how your preferences are set, new fields might also be added to all other views of the form. (In Developer Studio , select Window > Preferences. Under " Developer Studio ," click Form.) Some field properties affect all form views while other field properties do not. All display property settings apply to only the form view in which they are set. For example, in one view a field might be visible while in another view the field might be hidden or located elsewhere in the form. See Creating and managing packing lists and Creating and managing fields.
Visible	All	Specifies whether the field is visible in the current view. When this property is set to False, the field cannot be seen in the view, although users with Customize permissions can make a hidden field visible. A hidden field remains in the database and can be accessed by workflow. You can create active links to dynamically hide and unhide all fields except tree view table column fields. For progressive views, you can find this property under the Progressive-Desktop, Progressive-Mobile, Progressive-Tablet property groups. The default value of this property is True.
Visible Columns	Cell-based table	See "Visible Columns" in Adding a table field to a form.
Width	All	Defines the width of the fields in pixels. In a Progressive Web App (PWA), you can use this property to set the width of a thumbnail image.
Wrap Text	Alert list Cell-based table List view table Results list Tree view table	See Setting column properties.	Progressive views do not support Alert list field.
X	All	If the Alignment property is set to Left (default), specifies the horizontal position of the left edge of the field relative to the left side of the form. If the Alignment property is set to Right, specifies the horizontal position of the right edge of the field relative to the right side of the form. The X and Y settings are relative to the top left or right corner of the form. For example, X=0, Y=0, and Alignment=Left is the top left corner of the form. If a field is anchored to the right side of a panel in a panel holder, the field's X value might change if either of the following actions occur: (Tabbed only) The Display Type of the panel holder is changed. (Accordion, collapsible, or splitter) The Orientation of the panel holder is changed.
Y	All	Defines the vertical position of the left or right edge of the field in the form. The X and Y settings are relative to the top left or right corner of the form. For example, X=0, Y=0, and Alignment=Left is the top left corner of the form. If you have a series of data fields on the same line, these fields must have the same Y coordinate for tabbing between fields to work from left-to-right, top-to-bottom unless you define a tab order of fields in the form. See Setting the tab order of fields in a form view.