The configuration options on this tab directly affect the produced gridview-file. The gridview-file displays the actual content of the view or more precisely displays the result of the select-statement that defines the view.
On the left side it is possible to see the list of columns for each view of each group. You can select or deselect a specific column for display by clicking on the check-field next to its name. Selected for display in this context means that this column will be shown in the produced grid-view. Moreover each column has options associated with it. The options of the currently highlited column in the list are displayed and can be changed in the Selected Column-Column Options group-field on the right side.
Selected Column-Column Options:
Column caption is the name that will be used to label this column in the generated grid-view.
Fixed column width allows you to specify a fixed width for this column. Since a column is displayed as the column of an HTML-table, this option maps to the CSS-attribute 'width:[The value you entered]px;overflow:hidden;' of the td-tag. Moreover 'table-layout:fixed' is used in the starting table-tag. If you don't know HTML/CSS, you don't have to understand this, but read the note below.
![]() | It depends on the browser if the fixed-column-width statement will really result in a fixed column width. Mozilla ignores it as far as I know, the Internet Explorer will render it correctly. |
Truncate displayed data: Since some browsers ignore the fixed-width-statement as explained above you can also let the SWF truncate your data to a specified number of characters. By specifying the maximum number of characters for a column you can indirectly control the width of the column.
On the right, upper side there is the Selected View-Grid Options section.
Rows per Page determines the number of records that are maximally allowed on the grid-view. If the result of the select-statement contains more than the given number of records the result is divided into several pages.
Use composed column names changes the Column captions of all columns in the selected view. If a caption has not been modified by the user it will be replaced by its qualified name (tablename.columnname) or a qualified name will be replaced by its simple name.
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is only activated if the view is part of a group which has the Popup-option enabeled. If the button is not disabled clicking the button shows a dialog where you can enter the screen coordinates for the view to popup (The position the popup-window takes when the user clicks on the respective link on the index-page).