Understanding Form Controls

Use form controls to provide specific functions within an application such as these:

• Insert field controls on forms to display data, enter data, calculate data, store data permanently or temporarily, or pass data between fields and forms.

• Place check boxes on forms to provide for multiple selections, or radio buttons to indicate mutually exclusive selections.

Each form includes specific default controls, depending on the type of form that you are creating. However, you might need to add additional controls when you design the form. Choose from standard Windows graphical controls as well as JD Edwards EnterpriseOne custom controls.

All form controls are locked by default, this is seen by a "NO" cursor when mouse is hovered over the controls. The controls can be unlocked by clicking on the Form menu and selecting Lock Form Controls. This option will unlock the selected form for modifying controls. An information message box will display when you launch an application to indicate if the form is in lock mode.

When controls are hidden they are by default not viewable in FDA. To view the hidden controls click the Show Hidden Controls in the Form menu. Hidden controls will be displayed in blue italic text.

This table lists the controls, the forms on which they can be used, and their purpose:

Control	Valid Form Types	Description
Calendar	All Form Types	Use a calendar control to provide standard calendar capabilities to users which can be tied to some system events.
Check Box	All Form Types	Use one or more check boxes to provide the user with options that are not mutually exclusive.
Combo Box	All Form Types	Use combo box to provide user a drop down list of items.
Edit	All Form Types	Use edit fields to display data and to enable users to enter information for a specific instance of a data item.
Grid control	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Find/Browse (default control) Header Detail (default control) Headerless Detail (default control) Power Browse (default control) Power Edit Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Search & Select (default control) Wizard (page only)	Use grids to display data and to enable users to enter information. Unlike an edit control, grid controls can show multiple data items and multiple table rows at once.
Group	All Form Types	Use this control to group other controls together visually.
Image	All Form Types	Use image controls to place a static or animated graphic on a form.
Media Object	All Form Types	Use media object controls to enable users to enter rich text and attach files to a form.
Parent Child	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Parent/Child Browse (default control) Power Edit Wizard (page only)	Use parent child controls to present a hierarchical grid view or a tree view.
Push Button	All Form Types	Use a push button to initiate an action or a set of actions.
Radio Button	All Form Types	Use radio buttons to provide the user with sets of options. The radio buttons in each set are mutually exclusive.
Saved Query Control	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Find/Browse Header Detail Headerless Detail Parent/Child Browse Power Edit Power Browse Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Search & Select Wizard (page only)	Use a saved query control to enable users to create and save data queries and to provide them with a set of queries from which to choose.
Static Text	All Form Types	Use static text as labels on the form.
Subform	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Power Edit Power Browse Wizard (Wizard control only)	Use subforms to provide one BV and a group of controls associated with it. Place multiple subforms on a power form to provide multiple, collective data views on one form. The subform created this way will not be reusable by other forms or applications.
Subform Alias	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Power Browse Power Edit Wizard	Use a subform alias to place a reusable subform on the form. A reusable subform is a subform with a data view and a set of controls associated with it.
Tab Control	All Form Types	Use tab controls to present a large number of controls on one or more tab pages. Power forms can have any number of tab controls, but all other forms are restricted to one. You cannot use tab control on a subform that is a tab page.
Tab Page	Only apply to tab controls	Use a tab page control to define one page in a tab control.
Text Block Control	All Form Types	Use text block controls to display free-form HTML text and plain text elements.
Text Search Control	Browse Portlet Edit Portlet Find/Browse Header Detail Headerless Detail Parent/Child Browse Power Edit Power Browse Reusable Browse Subform Reusable Edit Subform Search & Select Wizard (page only)	Use text search controls to enable full text searches against a generated index (as opposed to searching against the underlying BV).
Tree Control	All Form Types	Use tree controls to display a tree structure.
Wizard	Wizard (default control)	Use wizard controls to create self-directed applications. This specialized control is available only on wizard forms.