You can use a control for a data field, also referred as a box, to display and edit the
value of the field on a form.
The MYOB Acumatica
Customization Platform supports the following types of boxes.
Object
Description
PXTextEdit
A text box to display and edit the value of a string field.
PXNumberEdit
A box to display and edit the value of a decimal or
int field.
PXMaskEdit
A text box to display and edit the value of a string field that has
the format specified in the data access class.
PXDateTimeEdit
A box to display and select the value of a datetime field.
PXCheckBox
A check box to display and select the value of a bool
field.
PXDropDown
A combo box to display, edit, and select the value of a field with a list attribute,
such as PXStringList, PXIntList, or
PXDecimalList.
PXSelector
A lookup control to display, search for, and select the value of a field with the
PXSelector attribute.
PXSegmentMask
A lookup control with a specified segmented key value that identifies a data record
and consists of one segment or multiple segments, where the list of possible values
is defined for each segment.
PXTreeSelector
A lookup control to select a value for a field with a
PXTreeSelector attribute from a tree control.
A box, as the diagram below shows, can be immediately added to the following types of
containers:
PXFormView
RowTeplate
PXTabItem
Figure 1. Nesting rules for a box bound to a data field
