Customize Fields with Screen Designer (Desktop)

Use Screen Designer in the desktop application to move, resize, and change labels for the fields on screens.

To customize a field:

1. In the desktop application, display the screen (form) that contains fields that you want to customize and click the Screen Designer icon at the bottom right of the screen.
2. On the Screen Designer form, click a single field to select it, press CTRL while you select multiple fields, lasso a group of fields, or click Select All to select all fields. DPS displays the data for that field in the Properties pane. The data that you can change displays in black; the data that you cannot change is shaded (grayed out). The names that display in this list are actual HTML IDs associated with each element.
3. To resize a field or a set of fields, select the fields and enter new dimensions in the Height and Width fields on the Properties pane or drag the Resize arrows for the fields.
4. To move a field, select it and drag it to a new position or use the Position fields to specify a new location. You can click Select All to drag all fields on the tab at the same time.
5. To change the label for a field, enter a new name in the Caption field on the Properties pane or click to display the Caption Editor dialog box and specify a new label on the dialog box. You cannot change labels for command buttons, such as Delete Address.

   HTML tags such as <i> and <b> are not supported.

6. To add a new field label, click New Label, move the new label to its location, and enter the new name in the Caption field. The labels that you add with the custom label feature are not associated with any input field.
7. To align multiple fields, select the fields and then click one of the following icons: Align Left, Align Right, Align Top, or Align Bottom.
8. To make multiple fields the same width, select the fields and click Same Width.
9. To make multiple fields the same height, select the fields and click Same Height.
10. To delete a label that you created in Screen Designer, select the label and click Delete.
    • Only field labels that you created in Screen Designer can be deleted using Screen Designer.
    • You cannot delete standard field labels.
    • If you created fields for this tab in the User Defined Components application, you need to go to that application to delete them.
    • You cannot delete the actual input portion of the field using Screen Designer. To do that, you need to use the User Defined Components application.
11. Click OK.