Insert a Control

You can use the following ways to insert a control on a form:

Drag-and-drop the desired control from the Control Palette on the left side of the main Web Screen Painter window to the desired spot on the form.
Click a position on the form where you want to place the new control and select the desired control from the Control menu.
Copy an existing control and paste it to the form.

After the new control is properly placed, display and edit its properties.

The controls that can be inserted on both list and detail forms are the following:

Control	Icon	Description
Insert Row		Causes the selected control to be the last in its current row (moves following controls to the next row).
Delete Row	N/A	Deletes all controls on the same row as the currently selected control.
Textbox		Inserts a single or multi-line textbox for editing a string or text field.
Dropdown		Inserts a drop-down list for editing a field validated against a table.
Lookup		Inserts a lookup control for editing a field validated against a table. The control consists of a textbox with a hyperlink in the label that pops up a select form.
Button		Inserts a button.
Hierarchical Lookup		Similar to a Lookup control, except that it is used for a field with a hierarchical selector (such as request category).
Date		Inserts a date field. The control consists of a textbox with a hyperlink in the label that pops up a date selector.

The following additional controls are available for detail forms only:

Control	Icon	Description
Checkbox		Inserts a check box.
HTML Editor		Inserts an HTML editor for a text field that contains HTML.
Read Only Textbox		Inserts a non‑editable text field.
Read Only Lookup		Inserts a non‑editable lookup field. The field is displayed as a hyperlink to pop up the detail form defining it.
Read Only		Inserts a non‑editable date field.
Notebook		Inserts a notebook. There can only be one notebook on a detail form, so this control can be inserted only on forms that do not already contain a notebook.

The following additional control is available for list forms only:

Control	Icon	Description
List		Inserts a list. There can only be one list on a list form, so this control can only be inserted on new list forms.