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Show Custom Dialog
Purpose
Displays a custom message dialog box, with custom text and labels.
Format
Show Custom Dialog [<title>; <message text>; Table1::input field 1;...]
Options
Click Specify to display the “Show Custom Dialog” Options dialog box, where you can set the dialog
box title, message text, and buttons, and specify up to three fields to use for input or display.
General options
• Title lets you specify the title of the custom dialog box. You can enter literal text or click
Specify to create the dialog box title from a calculation.
• Message lets you specify the message of the dialog box.You can enter literal text or
click Specify to create the message text from a calculation.
• Button Labels let you specify how many buttons (up to three) to display in the custom
dialog box and labels for these buttons. If you leave a button label blank, the button
does not appear in the custom dialog box. If you leave all button titles blank, an OK
button displays in the lower-right corner of the custom dialog box. To create a button
label based on a calculation, click Specify and then specify the calculation.
• Commit Data checkboxes pass input from the dialog box to the database according to
the action of each button. If no fields are active, then the data is committed; if a field is
active, then the data is committed when the record is committed.
Input Field options
• Select Show input field <n> to activate an input field.
• Select Specify to choose the field for input. Each input area maps to one field.
• Select Use password character (*) to mask text as it is entered, or as it is displayed
from the database. This option obscures data being input into the custom dialog box or
being displayed, but does not alter the actual data as it is stored in the database.
• Use Label to specify a field label (the text that will identify this input to the user.) You
can enter literal text or create the label from a calculation.