Summary

Important Observations

• The variables in your web page component can be set when the user hovers the mouse over a field or a component such as a dropdown. The value is also set by the item with focus in a list component and by a list event such as ItemGotSelection. Your web page design and logic must take this into account.

• Parts of a table layout can have their height and width Unit defined as Pixel, Proportion or Content.

• The Dropdown component can have a DropDownStyle of Dropdown or DropdownList. A style of Dropdown allows a value to be entered in the edit area.

• Server Modules srvroutines are automatically defined to exchange data in JSON format.

• The List control has many properties at list and column level which define its features and behavior.

Tips and Techniques

• With a table layout applied to the web page or a container component, the Layout ribbon enables components to have their alignment, size, flow, margins and column span defined.

• Pass key values into your methods which retrieve data, in order to ensure the correct value is used.

What You Should Know

• How to implement the dropdown and list components

• How to link list components together so that the display the correct set of values.

• How to retrieve a list of database values using a srvroutine within a Server Module.