Control Common Properties

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The following properties are common to all controls:

Property	Name^1	Description	Type^1	Get^1	Set^1
Control name	ctrl	The control name. All names within a form/component must be unique.	Character	Yes	No
Display only	displayOnly	Makes the control and all of its children display only i.e. data cannot be entered. A control is considered to be display only if the control or any of its parents have been set as display only.	Boolean	Yes	Yes
Hidden	hidden	Hides the control and all of its children. A control is considered to be hidden if the control or any of its parents have been set as hidden.	Boolean	Yes	Yes
Message options		Provides options to control where messages are displayed and their appearance. See message options for details.
Modifiers	modifiers	Modifiers should be entered as a comma delimited list of individual modifiers e.g. Audit, Supervisor, Mod2 Level1 Modifiers provide a way of flagging one or more controls so they can be found programatically, e.g. a group of Field Controls might be changed from enterable to display only. Any number of modifiers can be assigned - Modifiers are accessed by using method Page.getControlsByModifier(). Javascript example: var page = pages.PAGE_1; for each (var ctrl in page.getControlsByModifier("Audit")) { if (!system.securityManager.hasRole("FINANCE_CONTROLLER")) { ctrl.hide(); } }	Character	Yes	Yes
New Line	newLine	When inside a container with Field Grid layout, indicates that the control should be placed on a new line. This property is only shown for controls that support the new line option. See Field Grid Layout for more information.	Boolean	Yes	Yes
Html Element Properties		Provides support for the creation of rich client applications, allows the creation of: locators, event handlers and custom attributes. Click here for more details.
Events		Allows all events for the control to be configured. Displays the events dialog.		No	No

¹ See accessing control properties from scripts

Style tab

Click on the … button to display the Styling Assistant for the control. Details of the properties available with each styling assistant are shown in the documentation for each control – see Controls.