Properties Content Tab

In the content tab you can enter information when you are using a Fixed Value object. This information will then be presented on the Page design in the Text object. Of course when connected to a database, this Content tab will show the data from the connected column. The box around the text area will be GREEN when it contains information coming from a connected database.

You can change the information by selecting a different Standard Object Type. More information can be found in the "Using Images" section of this Help file.

Instead of selecting a Standard Object, the information can also simply be changed by selecting a database column from the Data Menu in the Explorer Menu and drag and drop this field directly into the Content text area.

Formatting Options

The Content tab also offers the possibility to do some advanced formatting. In the Formatting Options group you can set the Letter case for the content. You have four options for the Letter case:

•Maintain Original - No changes to the original

•Lowercase - Makes the content Lowercase

•Uppercase - Makes the content Uppercase

•Namecase - Makes all the first letters Uppercase

You can add a prefix and a suffix to your content and make it always visible. By default it is unchecked which means that if there is no content available, for example from the database, the prefix or suffix information will not shown.

You can also set the Format of the content. This can be handy if you want to make sure that it is always a integer, date, text, etc., content. You can select the following Formats:

•Date/Time

•Decimal

•Floating Point

•Integer

•None

•String

You can also format the content using Numeric format strings. For example in the screen shot below we have selected Integer as the format and entered 'd4'. That means that the content will be representing four digits. So if the value from the database is 1, setting it to d4 will show 0001.