Characteristics of floating panels
The following table lists the characteristics for each type of floating panel.
Characteristics of floating panels
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Behavioral aspect
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Modeless floating panel
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Dialog floating panel
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Tooltip floating panel
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How the panel is invoked
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Through a Change Field active link action. The panel can be made initially visible.
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Through a Change Field active link action. The panel must be initially hidden (enforced at design time).
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Through a Change Field active link action. The panel must be initially hidden (enforced at design time).
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How the panel is dismissed
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Through a Change Field active link action.
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Through a Change Field active link action.
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Through a Change Field active link action or a mouse event outside panel area. Keyboard users can press Esc to dismiss the panel.
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Positioning of the panel
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Based on the floating panel's XY location at design-time.
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Centered relative to the view. If one dialog floating panel triggers another dialog floating panel, the subsequent panel will not be exactly centered.
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Located relative to the event that triggered the workflow. (For example, if a user clicked a link on the form, and that click triggered workflow, the panel would appear just below the field.)
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Allowing users to resize the panel
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Users cannot resize the panel.
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To allow users to resize the panel, set the Minimum Height and the Minimum Width properties to an integer greater than 0. (A resize handle appears in the lower-right corner of the panel.)
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Users cannot resize the panel.
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Moving the panel
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Users cannot move the panel.
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Users can move the panel.
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Users cannot move the panel.
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Appearance of underlying objects
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Normal
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Dimmed out
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Normal
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How events are handled
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Keyboard and mouse events are passed to underlying objects.
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Keyboard and mouse events are blocked outside of the visible area of the panel.
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A click mouse event outside of the panel area dismisses the panel.
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How workflow behaves
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Workflow that is invoked does not pause when the panel is displayed.
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Workflow does not pause, and users cannot start new workflow from the base layer.
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Workflow that is invoked does not pause when the panel is displayed.