{{tag>category:"O4W" author:"Barry Stevens" author:"bshumsky"}} [[https://www.revelation.com/the-works|Join The Works program to have access to the most current content, and to be able to ask questions and get answers from Revelation staff and the Revelation community]] ==== wizard Elements->properties (O4W) ==== === At 14 APR 2023 03:51:28AM Barry Stevens wrote: === 1. When using the wizard to drop elements on a form and it diplays all the proprty options, where do find in any help, what all the propertys do and mean. 2. Whilst on the subject, where is the best place to find information on how all these 'elements' are meant to be used? e.g. whats the diference bewtween a Control block and a Section and when do you use either.? ---- === At 14 APR 2023 10:26AM bshumsky wrote: === 1. When using the wizard to drop elements on a form and it diplays all the proprty options, where do find in any help, what all the propertys do and mean. 2. Whilst on the subject, where is the best place to find information on how all these 'elements' are meant to be used? e.g. whats the diference bewtween a Control block and a Section and when do you use either.? Hi, Barry. Unfortunately, I think the best (only?) references might currently be the video tutorial - for example: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkLiXvrCec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkLiXvrCec[/url] There is some explanation of using the WYSIWYG wizard in the O4W quick start guide, but I don't believe there is an explanation of all the elements, and all their properties, anywhere. As has been discussed before, one of the goals of our subsequent OI releases will be to improve the documentation. For now, I can try to answer your questions on this forum, and that way they can be helpful to others in the future as well. e.g., a "section" is a generic term for an HTML element that contains other elements (in actual html, it's normally a "
", if that helps any). So any time you want/need to group things together and no other element is more appropriate, you can use a section. A control block, on the other hand, has some "smarts" - it can be used to show, or hide, the elements it contains based on some programmatic code, or to repeat the elements it contains based on some data values. If you have seen the "O4W Mobile Pizza App", that uses a control block to force the display of multiple list items from different records. You should be able to find the PDF "Building the mobile pizza app" in your OI 10 "documents" folder. - Bryan Shumsky [url=https://www.revelation.com]Revelation Software, Inc.[/url] ---- === At 14 APR 2023 05:47PM Barry Stevens wrote: === 1. When using the wizard to drop elements on a form and it diplays all the proprty options, where do find in any help, what all the propertys do and mean. 2. Whilst on the subject, where is the best place to find information on how all these 'elements' are meant to be used? e.g. whats the diference bewtween a Control block and a Section and when do you use either.? Hi, Barry. Unfortunately, I think the best (only?) references might currently be the video tutorial - for example: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkLiXvrCec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkLiXvrCec[/url] There is some explanation of using the WYSIWYG wizard in the O4W quick start guide, but I don't believe there is an explanation of all the elements, and all their properties, anywhere. As has been discussed before, one of the goals of our subsequent OI releases will be to improve the documentation. For now, I can try to answer your questions on this forum, and that way they can be helpful to others in the future as well. e.g., a "section" is a generic term for an HTML element that contains other elements (in actual html, it's normally a "
", if that helps any). So any time you want/need to group things together and no other element is more appropriate, you can use a section. A control block, on the other hand, has some "smarts" - it can be used to show, or hide, the elements it contains based on some programmatic code, or to repeat the elements it contains based on some data values. If you have seen the "O4W Mobile Pizza App", that uses a control block to force the display of multiple list items from different records. You should be able to find the PDF "Building the mobile pizza app" in your OI 10 "documents" folder. - Bryan Shumsky [url=https://www.revelation.com]Revelation Software, Inc.[/url] Thank you. Forgot that martyn put up a video. Also, thank you for accepting my novice questions. ---- === At 15 APR 2023 08:58AM bshumsky wrote: === No worries. Everyone has to start at the beginning when they're trying something new... - Bryan Shumsky [url=https://www.revelation.com]Revelation Software, Inc.[/url] [[https://www.revelation.com/revweb/oecgi4p.php/O4W_HANDOFF?DESTN=O4W_RUN_FORM&INQID=WORKS_READ&SUMMARY=1&KEY=C503D383D7020E42AF7F9F0B208843D6|View this thread on the Works forum...]]