Use the Screen Designer to tailor screens and tabs to meet your requirements. Only employees with an Admin type role can access the Screen Designer.
What Elements Can You Change?
The elements you can change with the Screen Designer depend on the area of
Vision in which you want to work:
- In the Info Centers and the Activity Manager, you can change all screens and tabs.
- On the Activities dialog box, you can change the Detail, Attendees, Contacts, Leads, and Recurrence tabs.
- In Planning, you can change the General tab.
Field Types
You may see any of the following types of fields on forms and tabs:
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Description
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Check Boxes
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Check boxes are fields in which you click inside the box to select an option, such as
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You can move a check box and change its label.
You can also determine whether you want to position the caption to the left or to the right side of the check box. To do this, select the check box field that you want to change, and then select
True or
False from the
Left Align Text field in the Properties pane.
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Command Buttons
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Command buttons are fields that you use to perform an action, such as
 .
You can move, change the size of, and change the name of command buttons.
You can hide command buttons, but you cannot lock them.
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Drop-Down List Fields
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Drop-down list fields are fields in which you can select a setting from a predetermined list. For example, the
Status field on the General tab of the
Client Info Center is a drop-down list field. When you click the field, a list displays from which you can select one of the following settings:
Active,
Inactive, or
Dormant.
In the Screen Designer, when you resize a drop-down list field, it does not affect the width of the opened drop-down list.
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Screen Designer and the User Defined Tabs Application
You can use the Screen Designer in conjunction with the User Defined Tabs application. The User Defined Tabs application allows you to add new tabs, then add fields and grids to the tabs. You can then use the Screen Designer to organize the added tab elements.
Screen Designer and Multicurrency
If your enterprise uses the Multicurrency feature and you have added at least one user-defined currency field to an Info Center, then a
Custom Currency Code field displays in the Screen Designer. This field is available for General tabs in the following Info Centers: Clients, Contacts, Leads, Marketing, Campaigns, Opportunities, Vendors, Text Library, and Chart of Accounts.
Screen Designer and Kona Integration
If you implement the Kona integration feature and you want to move or resize the Kona widget on either the
Project Info Center form or the Opportunity Info Center form, you can use Screen Designer to do so.
Screen Designer and Navigator Expense Reports
If you use the Screen Designer to make changes to labels, and hidden, locked, and required settings in the Vision Expense Report application, those changes are automatically applied to the Navigator Expense Reports application.