Design page customization

Use the tools in the toolbar along the top of the Design canvas to customize the appearance of the Design canvas.

Bidirectional options

Terminal Size
Select the down arrow to create format definitions for several screen sizes.
  • 12 × 80
  • 24 × 80 (default)
  • 32 × 80
  • 43 × 80
  • 24 × 80
  • 27 × 132
Toggle Grid lines
This option hides or shows the grid lines in the design canvas. Grid lines are helpful to verify that fields are aligned properly.
Toggle Samples Values
This icon, toggle sample values icon, functions as a button. Pressing it displays the type and amount of data allowable in a field. For example, a numeric field of 4 units displays a sample value of 9999 and an alphanumeric field of the same length displays a sample value of XXXX.
Toggle Black and White Mode
This icon, toggle black and white icon, functions as a button. Pressing it displays the devices and fields in a high-contrast canvas.
Zoom Level
Use this icon, zoom level control icon, to select the zoom level of the design canvas.
Filters
A filter is a group of one or more physical pages that are displayed at a single time. Select the down arrow next to the filter icon, to see a list of filters that are created. By default, all physical pages are shown.

Create new filters to display customized groupings of physical pages. You can also change the ordering of physical pages in the list.

If bidirectional support is enabled, a Toggle Bidirectional Mode button is displayed on the Design page toolbar.
The following toggle options are available:
  • Visual Data

    Toggles between visual ordering of text and the default logical ordering.

  • RTL Mapset

    Toggles the orientation of the screen and the horizontal ruler between left-to-right to right-to-left.

  • Symmetric Swapping

    Resets swappable characters. For example, in a right-to-left string, the open parenthesis ( and close parenthesis ) are reversed.

  • Numeric Swapping

    Sets an inversion of the screen, which causes Hindi numerals to be replaced by their Arabic counterparts and the Arabic numerals to be replaced by their Hindi counterparts.