Editing a Customisation

To edit a customisation, do one of these:

Find the form you want to edit on the Windows Designer Administration form the click the Designer button to open a working copy of the form and to open the Editor palette, or
Right click the toolbar of an open form and then click the Designer to open the Windows Designer Administration form.

Click an control on the form. The Editor palette displays which of the control's properties you can edit. What you can edit will depend on the control that you select. For example, you can change the size, formatting, and colour of a field label to indicate that the field is mandatory.

Click the Save button on the Editor palette to save your changes. Click the View button to see the changes that you saved.

An Example

In this example, you'll change the title of the Contact Search form along with these field labels:

Email starts
Only Contacts with email
Show Inactive

To make the changes:

On the Windows Designer Administration form, make a copy of the Contact Search form.
Enter Find Contacts in the Customisation name field.
Save the customisation.
Click the Designer button to edit the copy of the form.
On the Editor palette, type Find Contacts in the Title field.
Click the Email starts label and do this in the Editor palette:
- Type Email Starts With in the Label field.
- Change the width of the label to 83 pixels in the Size area of the palette.
Click the Only Contacts with email label and do this in the Editor palette:
- Type Only Contacts with Email Addresses in the Label field.
- Change the width of the label to 187 pixels in the Size area of the palette.
Click the Show Inactive label and do this in the Editor palette:
- Type Show Inactive Contacts in the Label field.
- Change the width of the label to 131 pixels in the Size area of the palette.
You'll notice that the new field labels overlap the fields themselves. You'll need to move those labels and fields, along with any controls adjacent to them, to the right.
Click Save.