Dynamic Field

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A Dynamic Field is a frame that can contain text. Unlike Labels, an Input Box can have dynamic content. You can load a Dynamic Field with content from a Query, a Variable, current System Date, System Time, Page number and Page Total.

Properties

Through the window that opens the option presents two tabs: general and content.

Tab - General

The available options are:

Common

• Name - Name of the Control. This Name will be used to identify the Control throughout the Project. The name of the Control can only contain letters, digits or underscore (_).

• Description - Description of the Control. This Description is for your information only, Kalipso does nothing with it.

Layout

• X - X position of the Control

• Y - Y position of the Control.

• Width - Width of the Control.

• Height - Height of the Control.

Miscellaneous

• Round - Allows the content to be rounded.

• Multiline - When active, if the Text doesn't fit the Control in width, it's automatically "broken" into several lines. It can have a Fixed Height or Automatic Height.

Condition

• Condition - Condition to be verified before displaying the control.

When clicked, a list of conditions already created is accessed. However, you can add more by clicking on the icon on the right. Then a new window appears:

In the table are the conditions already created and on the right side new conditions can be added or edited.

Style

Text

• Font - Font of the displayed Text.

• Size - Font size of the displayed Text.

• Font Color - Font color of the displayed Text.

• Text Position - Position of the Text inside the Control. It can be left, center or right.

• Properties - Font properties of the displayed Text. As bold, italic, underline and cut.

Border

• Border - To set or remove the frame around the Control.

Tab - Content

After the initial settings in the general tab, you must access the content tab to indicate the data source for the field. Thus:

The available options are:

• Load Control With - Area to choose the source of information to fill the field. The hypotheses are ahead and only one can be selected for each dynamic field. The options are:

  • Query

  • Variable

  • System Date

  • System Time

  • Page Number

  • Page Total

Depending on the option chosen in Load Control With, the options below change to match the type of data to be displayed. The example shows the specific options for queries.