Summary

Important Observations

• Field visualizations can be used in LANSA components such as forms, reusable parts or web pages.

• Fields types such as Alpha, String, Decimal and Signed have a simple entry field as the default visualization, but many other types of visualizations, such as Radio buttons, drop downs, spin buttons, and other visualizations may be added.

• Field types such as DateTime have specialized visualizations that include features like calendar prompts.

• You can control which visualization is used by default. In the example of the iiiEmployNotes field, you would want a multiline entry field to be used instead of a single entry field. Hence, the multiline field was defined as the default visualization.

Tips and Techniques

• Field visualizations ensure a consistent presentation of your fields.

• Field visualizations can be extremely powerful in the case of simple list selections. For example, a field GENDER can be visualized as Male and Female radio buttons or as a list of values in a combo box. By defining this visualization once, it is automatically available to all components.

What I Should Know

• How to create a field visualization.

• How to perform simple changes to the field visualization definitions.

• How to set the default visualization.