Study Level Styles and Form Level Styles dialog boxes—Option descriptions

Question column width

The percentage of the width of the layout table to use for the question column.

Default—50 percent.

Control orientation

Display codelist items either horizontally or vertically.

Default—Horizontal.

Single selection settings

Note: The settings in this section apply only to items that require a single selection (set on the Design tab for an item, when Select Single Value is selected). Multiple-selection codelists are always formatted as checkboxes.

• Radio buttons

(Default)

Format single-selection codelists as radio buttons.

• Use pulldown when item count exceeds—Format single-selection codelists as radio buttons, except when the number of codelist items exceeds the specified number, and then format as pulldowns.

  Default—5.

• Display vertically when item count exceeds—When the number of codelist items exceeds the specified number, display the codelist items as vertical radio buttons.

  Default—5.

• Pulldown

Format single-selection codelists as pulldowns.

Caption alignment

Align the caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of an item's controls.

Default—Left.

Control orientation

Display nested controls either horizontally or vertically.

Default—Vertically.

Year range

The default year range for all date time items.

Default—Current year for both fields.

Caption alignment

Align the caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of an item's controls.

Default—Left.

Caption alignment

Align the caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of an item's controls.

Default—Left.

Textbox width

Specify the width of the text boxes.

• Use the item variable's length as the width (Default)—Use each item's length as the width of the text box.
• Use this width—Use a specified width for the text box.

Unit control type

Display the controls for the units for a float or integer item as either radio buttons or pulldowns.

Default—Radio buttons.

Caption alignment

Align the caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of an item's controls.

Textbox size

Specify the width and height of the text boxes.

• Use the item variable's length as the width (Default)—Use each item's length as the width of the text box.
  • Increase the height by one line for every __ chars—Increment the height of the text box by one line for every 50 characters. For example, the height for 1-50 characters is 1; the height for 51-100 characters is 2; and so on.

    Default—50.

• Use the following width and height—Use a specified width and height for the textbox. Specify the width using the number of characters and the height using the number of lines.

Character set restriction

• Unrestricted (Default)—Do not restrict the entry of values in text fields without codelists.
• ASCII Only—In release 5.0 and later of the InForm application, restrict the entry of values in text fields without codelists to the complete ASCII character set (byte range 0 to 127). Items with restricted values are marked with a star («) in the Annotated Study Book.