Controls

Introduction

A control is any element that can be added to a page e.g. input field, table, menu, text etc. Most controls are visible, but this is not necessarily the case. Available controls are listed below and can be added onto a page by dragging from the Palette View to either the WYSIWYG View or the Outline View.

Some controls act as a container, meaning that other controls can be added to the control as children e.g. a Panel Control. Container controls have a layout, which defines how its child controls are positioned within the container.

All controls have properties that define the behaviour of the control and are shown in the Properties View when a control is selected in either the WYSIWYG View or the Outline View. Options exist to load and save properties to/from Property Sets which are stored in presentation templates. Properties can also be accessed from a script by referring to controlName.property. For many control properties, it is possible to specify that they should either have a local value or that they should inherit their value from somewhere else, usually a value in a linked Property Set – see local/inherited control properties.

Click on the links below for details of each control and a list of supported properties.

Controls

The following controls are available from the Palette View:

Barcode Control	A barcode that can be added to a web page or a print page
Button Control	Clickable button
Button Column Control	A button within a Table Control
Dynamic Menu Item Control	A dynamic menu item within either a horizontal or vertical menu
Field Control	Field
Finish Button Control	Ebase finish button
Grid Control	A grid layout control
Group Panel Control	A container with title bar and additional texts
Horizontal Line Control	Horizontal line
Horizontal Menu Control	Horizontal Menu
HTML Control	Allows HTML to be added
Hyperlink Control	Hyperlink, either internal (runs FPL script) or external
Image Control	An image in a non-table location
Image Column Control	An image within a Table Control
Include Control	Includes an external HTML or JSP file
Menu Item Control	An individual menu item within either a horizontal or vertical menu
Message Control	Acts as a location for error and warning messages
Next Page Button Control	Ebase next page navigation button
Page Break Control	Represents a page break when the page is printed to a PDF
Page Navigation Panel Control	A panel containing Ebase page navigation buttons and Ebase save/restore buttons
Page Panel Control	A page level container with a page header text and additional texts
Panel Control	A simple container
Previous Page Button Control	Ebase previous page navigation button
Repeater Control	Table where each row is displayed across multiple lines
Restore Button Control	Ebase restore button (save/restore feature)
Save Button Control	Ebase save button (save/restore feature)
Spacer Control	Horizontal and/or vertical spacer
Tab Control	An individual Tab within a Tab Set
Tab Set Control	Tab Set
Table Control	Table
Table Column Control	Table Column
Table Page Control	A horizontal scroll page within a Table Control
Text Control	Text
Titled Panel Control	A container with a title bar and configurable corners
Vertical Menu Control	Vertical Menu

The following system controls are not available from the Palette View, but can be configured:

Page Control	A special control representing the page – this control cannot be deleted
Component Control	Represents a part-page component
Grid Cell Control	An individual cell within a Grid Control
Repeater Row	A single table row within a Repeater