About Global Defaults

The Preferences dialog box is a property sheet that enables you to set global Form Integration defaults. This table describes the customizable global preference options that you can define on the Preferences dialog box to control the look of your form display

Form display options can be set or changed at any time.

Customizable Items Description
Tree settings (Global option) Enables you to display group, record, and field descriptions.

You can also access:

  • Colors (Global option) - Enables you to select foreground and background colors to visually define form components. The use of color is optional.
  • Fonts (Global option) - Enables you to globally change how fonts display. This includes the typeface, style, and size. The default font that Sterling Gentran:Server® uses is a Sans Serif 9 point.
Standard Formats Displays the default date to use when elements are read from the Standards database.

Valid options are:

  • Six-character dates
  • Eight-character dates.
Positional Defaults Defines default field formats.
Files Defines how Forms Integration works with files.
Layout Defines the look of the layout window.
Confirmations Controls when you receive a confirmation prompt.
Version Controls how and when the system increments a form’s version number.

Date/Time Format

The Default Date formats dialog box, available from the Options menu, enables you to Control the default date and time formats that are used when elements are read from the standards database.