Containers

Container width and height

When you first open a view in Properties View Designer, the canvas contains a single layout container. This container is the root container in which you add other containers and properties.

Each container is as wide as its parent container if a width and height is not specified. You can set a custom width.

The default height is determined by the content of the container. You can override the default height by setting the height to a specific percentage or number of pixels. If you set the container to a specific height (percentage), you must also set a specific height for the parent container or containers, including the root container. If the height of the content exceeds the specified height, a vertical scroll bar is displayed.

Tabbed Layout containers

• The Tabbed Layout container always fills the full width of the container unless an explicit height and width are specified.
• All tab panes within the container have the same width regardless of their explicit width settings.
• The height can be set for the tab container or for the individual tab panes within the container.
• If the content of a tab pane exceeds the specified width and height of the tab container, horizontal or vertical scroll bars are displayed.

Titled Layout containers

• The Titled Layout container expands to the height of its content. When the container is collapsed, the height is reduced to the height of the title bar.
• If an explicit height is specified, the container height is always that height. When the container is collapsed, the content is hidden but the height is not reduced.

Multiple column containers

• The default width for each container is an equal percentage of the parent container.
• When you override any column settings, the default settings are discarded and you must specify the settings for all columns.
• If the total column width exceeds the container width, a horizontal scroll bar is displayed.

Property List containers

• Labels have the width equal to the longest label in the list.
• The column for the editor gets the remaining width.
• A field width percentage is the percentage of the editor column.
• The field width can be specified for each property. If a width is not specified, a default width is used.

Property Table containers

• You can specify the width of the table. If the combined column width exceeds the container width, a horizontal scroll bar is displayed.
• You can specify the height of the table. If the height is not specified, the table increases in height without a limit. If a height is specified, the table height is fixed and a vertical scroll bar is displayed in the table as necessary.
• You can specify the field width for each property. If a width is not specified, a default width is selected. Percentage-based field widths are specified as a percentage of the table width.

Property Table containers

Keyboard navigation

Users navigate in Case Manager Client as follows:

• Press the Tab key to move the cursor into a table. Press the Tab key again to move the cursor to the next cell in a table. When the cursor is in a table, pressing Enter is not equivalent to clicking OK to close the window. You must first move the cursor out of the table.
• To navigate within the table column: After the table has the focus, press F2 to move the focus to the column in the row.
• You can use the Tab key to navigate between the columns.
• To navigate out of the column, press the ESC key to move the focus back to the table.

Runtime behavior

• Add only multivalued properties to the property table.
• All properties in a property table, except for string properties, are automatically set to "Required."
• When one of the properties in a table is read-only, the toolbar is not available for the table. You cannot add a row, delete a row, or move a row, but you can double-click a non-read-only property in the table to edit the property value in the pre-existing row.

Layouts

• Each column in the multiple column container and each tab pane of the tab container is a layout container.
• You can move a layout container from elsewhere in the view or from the container palette into a multiple column container by using drag and drop or copy and paste.
• You can move a column from the multiple column container to another location in the view by using drag and drop or copy and paste.
• You can move tab panes within the tab containers in the same way, except that drag and drop is not supported.
• You can also use drag and drop to reorder the columns in the multiple column layout.

Titled layouts

In Properties View Designer, click the titled layout object to select it. If you click in the title area, the title area is either expanded or collapsed, depending on whether collapse is enabled in the settings. If you click an object inside the titled layout, that object is selected instead of the titled layout object.