The AccuWork Schema Editor

(Layout subtab)

Contents of the Layout Subtab

Form Layout Operations

An edit form consists of field-labels and corresponding edit-widgets, arranged in rows and columns. The field-labels come from the Labels column of the Schema Fields table (Schema subtab). The edit-widget for a field depends on its data type and, in some cases, on the additional Field Value information.

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Schema Editor Overview

Contents of the Layout Subtab

The Layout subtab provides a drag-and-drop canvas on which you design the edit form's rows and columns. On this canvas, each field-label/edit-widget pair is represented by a yellow box.

As the screen-shot annotations indicate, the yellow box contains a field-name (e.g. actTime), not a field-label (Actual Time). On the edit form, the field-label and the corresponding edit-widget will appear, side by side, at this position. You can also expand a yellow box to make it span two or more columns.

You can organize the fields into multiple "tables", each of which defines a separate tabbed page in the edit form. One of the tables can define a header section, which always appears on the edit form, no matter which tabbed page is currently visible.

The layout for a multiple-page edit form looks like this:

Form Layout Operations

Click on the items below for descriptions of the edit-form design operations available on the Layout subtab.