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Text Styles
You can configure text styles for field labels, field values, and labels. To access text styles, click on the toolbar to open the Layout Properties dialog box, and click the Text Styles tab. The available settings for defined text styles display in the Layout Properties dialog box.
Once you have completed your changes, click Apply to save your settings. To cancel the changes, click Revert.
To create a new text style, click New. A new text style has a name, default font, size (weight), and color. You can then apply the new text style as you would for any of the defined text styles.
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When creating a style for a mandatory field, consider using a unique font color so users can quickly identify mandatory fields when editing items. The color is also used as an indicator for the tab name of a tab that contains the mandatory field.
To delete a text style that is no longer required, click Delete.
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You do not need to assign text styles. If no text styles are assigned, the default styles are applied.
The following table summarizes the available properties for text styles:
Text Styles Properties
Description
Defined Text Styles
By default, styles are defined for Heading, FieldLabel, and FieldValue.
Heading style available to apply to any text you define as heading.
FieldLabel and FieldValue styles available to apply to field labels and values.
Name
Display name of defined text style you select. By default, first one selected.
Font
Font for selected text style. Default font determined by operating system.
Size
Available font sizes from 8–72 points. Also font weight, such as Bold, or Italic, or both. Default font size determined by operating system.
Color
Font color from available system font colors. By default, color determined by operating system.
Sample
Sample of text, including font size, weight, and color.
Default Text Styles Properties
The default text styles provide the underlying style for labels, field labels, field values, and mandatory field labels.
To access default text styles, click on the toolbar to open the Layout Properties dialog box, and click the Default Text Styles tab. The available settings for default text styles display.
Use the default text styles to define how different text elements display by default in your template.
Once you have modified the necessary default text style properties, click the next tab to configure additional properties. If you have completed your changes, click OK to save them and close the dialog box.
The following table summarizes the available properties for default text styles:
Default Text Styles Properties
Description
Default Label
By default, label text style is system.
Default Field Label
By default, field label text style is system.
Default Field Value
By default, field value text style is system.
Default Mandatory Field Label
By default, mandatory field label text style is system.
Default Grid Properties
Modifying the default grid properties affects the characteristics of all grids in the selected template. The available properties are background color, border, cell spacing, cell padding, pack, and fill.
To access the default grid properties, click on the toolbar to open the Layout Properties dialog box, and click the Default Grid tab. The available settings for default grid properties display.
Once you have modified the necessary default grid properties, click the next tab to configure additional properties. If you have completed your changes, click OK to save them and close the dialog box.
The following table summarizes the available default grid properties:
Default Grid Properties
Description
Background Color
Background color of grid. Choose color by clicking list and selecting:
• available color
• custom option and then choosing a color from the selectors for Swatches, HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), or RGB (Red, Green, Blue).
By default, background color is default as determined by operating system.
Border
Thickness of border around grid from 0 to 99 pixels. By default, border is 0.
Cell Spacing
Distance between individual cells from 0 to 99 pixels. By default, cell spacing is 0.
Cell Padding
Distance between cell’s contents and cell margin from 0 to 99 pixels. By default, cell padding is 0.
Pack
Specifies whether any extra horizontal space in grid is filled by last column (at far right). If pack is False, then extra horizontal space distributed across all columns. Extra horizontal space only occurs when Fill option set to True. By default, pack is True.
Fill
Specifies whether grid expands to fill available width in item display. If fill False, grid uses only space required to display its contents. By default, fill is True.
Default Cell Properties
Modifying the default cell properties affects the characteristics of all cells within the template. The available properties are background color, horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and wrap.
To access default cell properties, click on the toolbar to open the Layout Properties dialog box, and then click the Default Cell tab. The available settings for default cell properties display.
Once you have modified the necessary default cell properties, click the next tab to configure additional properties. If you have completed your changes, click OK to save them and close the dialog box.
The following table summarizes the available default cell properties:
Default Cell Properties
Description
Background Color
Preferred background color of cell. Select preferred background color by clicking list and selecting:
• available named HTML color
• custom option and then choosing a color from the selectors for Swatches, HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), or RGB (Red, Green, Blue).
By default, background color is default as determined by operating system.
Horizontal Alignment
Horizontal alignment of cell contents (Left, Center, or Right). By default, horizontal alignment is Left.
Vertical Alignment
Vertical alignment of cell contents (Top, Middle, or Bottom). By default, vertical alignment is Middle.
Wrap
Wrapping of text within cell. By default, Wrap enabled.