Throughout the application, you will see similar buttons on several screens. The following are some of the ones that are used most often:
§ Add: Adds a new item or value. When you click this button, a new modal dialog will be open or a new row will be added for you to edit your new entry.
§ Modify: Opens a new window to modify the selected row.
§ Delete: Deletes the selected record.
§ Copy: Makes a copy of the highlighted row and opens a new modal dialog or creates a new row so that you can edit the details of the record copied.
§ Sort: Allows you to select the order in which records are displayed. A Sort dialog box is displayed when you click this button. To add a new column, click and drag from the columns available on the left to the sort columns box on the right. To remove a column, click and drag in the opposite direction. If you need to sort a column in descending order, clear the ‘Ascending’ checkbox next to it. When you click OK to apply the settings, the data will be sorting according to the order in which the columns were listed in the ‘Sort Columns’ list box.
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Fig. 7 - A sort dialog box |
§ Filter: Will display only the data values that meet the filter criteria that you specify on the Filter condition dialog that pops-up (Fig. 8).
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Fig. 8 - A filter dialog box |
NOTE: The ‘Contains’ checkbox allows users to filter by a value appearing anywhere in the field (e.g. specifying “palm” on the city field would locate records with a city value of “Palm Beach Gardens”, but it would display those that have a city value of “West Palm Beach” as well).