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

Form Styles page

Option	Description
Question column width	The percentage of the width of the layout table to use for the question column. Default—50 percent.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.

Codelist Control Styles page

Option	Description
Control orientation	Display codelist items either horizontally or vertically. Default—Horizontal.
Single selection settings	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.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.

Compound Items Control Styles page

Option	Description
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.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.

Date Time Item Control Styles page

Option	Description
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.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.

Float Item and Integer Item Control Styles pages

Option	Description
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.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.

Text Item Control Styles page

Option	Description
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.

Note:

The Inherit checkbox is not available for the options on the Study Level Styles dialog box. When Inherit is selected, all values for the set of options are inherited from the study styles. To override the study styles, deselect Inherit, and provide different values.