To Open a Smart Panel in the Screen Editor

If you need to activate the Element Inspector for a pop-up panel, a dialog box, or another UI element that opens in modal mode and makes the Customization Menu unavailable for selection, you can press Control-Alt.

To open a smart panel in the Screen Editor, perform the following actions:

1. Open the form in the browser.
2. On the form, open the needed dialog box by using the appropriate action.
3. On the keyboard, press the Control-Alt combination.
   Note: The Element Inspector is activated while you keep the Control-Alt combination pressed on the keyboard.
4. Click anywhere inside the dialog box to open the Element Properties Dialog Box.
5. In the dialog box, click Customize.
6. If there is no currently selected customization project and the inspector opens the Select Customization Project Dialog Box, select an existing customization project or create a new one.

If the customization project does not contain a changeset for the form, the Customization Project Editor adds to the project a Page item for the form to keep your changes in the database. The smart panel element is opened in the Screen Editor, and you can start to customize the dialog box.

When you click Save on the editor toolbar, the editor updates the Page item in the database.