When a form design becomes complex, some page
elements may obstruct others or may even not
fit on the page in the design window. FTDesign adds
page elements to the page in the order you create them.
If, for example, you add a group header after creating a
detail line, it can be difficult to correctly
align text to the appropriate header text.
To cater for these situations, FTDesign allows you to
define which page elements are currently visible on
screen and in which order to place those elements. You can control this from the
Placement and visibility option in the
Define menu. Note: this option has no
influence on the order of page elements produced at run-time.
To adjust the Placement and visibility:
- Select Placement and visibility
from the Define menu.
- On the Headers / footers tab:
- Available - headers and
footers in the Available box
will not appear on the form in FTDesign.
Although the headers and footers in the
Available box do not appear on the form, they
will still print at run-time.
- Ordered - headers and
footers in the Ordered box will
appear on the form in the same sequence.
- Right/Left arrows - use the
right and left arrows to move headers and
footers between the Available and Ordered boxes.
- Up/Down arrows - use the up
and down arrows to change the header and footer
order in the Ordered box.
- On the Detail lines tab:
- Available - detail lines in
the Available box will not
appear on the form in FTDesign. Although the
details lines in the Available box do not appear
on the form, they will still print at run-time.
- Ordered - detail lines in
the Ordered box will appear on
the form in the same sequence.
- Right/Left arrows - use the
right and left arrows to move detail lines
between the Available and
Ordered boxes.
- Up/Down arrows - use the up
and down arrows to change the detail line order
in the Ordered box.
- On the Sub-forms tab:
- Sub-forms - in the
sub-forms box check or uncheck the check box to
make the sub-form visible or not visible.
- Show All - click the
Show All button to make all
sub-forms on the form visible.
- Hide All - click the
Hide All button to make all
sub-forms on the form not visible.
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