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Home > Project Management > Toolkit Designer > About The Designer

About The Designer

The Toolkit Designer allows you to create a data input form for your custom tables. Using the Toolkit Designer you can create feature-rich custom data entry forms in a short amount of time. The design surface provides a set of basic functions and components and has been designed to be usable for a variety of custom applications. The basic list of features includes:

  • Support multiple graphical elements such as text, pictures, drop-downs and shapes.
  • Allow movement and alignment of those elements.
  • Allow finished compositions to be saved to disk and loaded back into the design surface.
  • Visually represent the data entry form on the screen to make it easier to position elements.

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    Designer Breakout
    Toolbars -
    Toolbars give you quick access to features such as saving and component alignment.

    ACT Fields -
    And other Components - Lists the available ACT fields in the current custom table that are not on the form already.

    Properties -
    List the properties of the currently selected component.

    Designer Surface -
    This is the areas that is used for data entry.

    Math Functions -
    This lists all the math functions attached to the current form. Please see Math function Between Fields
    for more information.

    See also