📄️ How to open a page from the catalog
By default, the catalog is open when you start Web Designer. If it is not open, choose View, Catalog from the menu.
📄️ How to open the Property Inspector
Once you have opened an info page in the design area, the object tree appears. There are various ways to select an object from this tree and open the property inspector:
📄️ How to set properties with the Property Inspector
Once you have selected an object in the object tree, and opened the Property Inspector, there are various ways to set or change properties for that object.
📄️ How to reset properties
Re-inheritance is an efficient way of limiting the total number of settings for a particular application. The fewer local settings there are, the more efficient the maintenance of your web application will be. To this end, you can use the Reset button on the Property Inspector to reset a property's value to the value as defined for the object's superclass. In other words, the higher up in the hierarchy you define settings, the fewer settings there are, and the more efficient development and maintenance will be.
📄️ How to add a control to a page
To add a control to a page:
📄️ How to remove a control from a page
To remove a control from a page:
📄️ How to create custom controls
To create a custom control that you can then insert into web pages:
📄️ How to access Web Designer property help
Help is offered in a bottom pane inside the Property Inspector on each individual property that you can set for an object.
📄️ How to change the prompt or label of an object
In Web Designer:
📄️ How to make fields non-displayed
Which fields are displayed and which are not is initially determined in the Definer, but may be overruled later in Web Designer.
📄️ How to include an image
Images can be used either as a replacement for textual labels, or as background patterns. In both cases, you need to specify the name of a GIF or JPG image file.