Script Steps Reference

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Tab panel
A component of a tab control. The tab panel is the area displayed when a tab in a tab control is
selected. You can place objects such as lines, fields, buttons, portals, imported graphics, blocks
of text, tab controls, slide controls, and web viewers in tab panels.
Table
A collection of data pertaining to a subject, such as customers or stock prices. A database
contains one or more tables, which consist of fields and records. When you create a new table,
a visual representation, or occurrence, of the table appears in the relationships graph. You can
specify multiple table occurrences (with unique names) of the same table in order to work with
complex relationships in the graph.
Table View
Displays multiple records in a tabular format like a spreadsheet. Each record appears in a row,
and each field appears in a column. To select this view, click Table View in the layout bar.
If you don't see the status toolbar, click the status toolbar control button at the bottom of
the document window.
In Browse mode, you can use Table View to create, modify, and delete fields; choose field types;
add, delete, and sort records; or create a chart or dynamic report.
Target file
The file into which you bring data during importing or exporting.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
The basic communication protocol that is the foundation of the Internet.
Template
A predefined website that you can select in the Web Viewer Setup dialog box to help you create
a web viewer quickly.
Text baseline
In Layout mode, the guideline that appears at the base of the text in a field or text block. Text
baselines can be solid, dotted, or dashed. If you want text baselines to also appear in Browse
and Find modes, select Text baselines in the Appearance tab of the Inspector.
If you don’t see the Inspector, choose View menu > Inspector.
Text expression
Any expression that returns a text result. For example, a text expression can be a constant
("London"), a field reference (Status), or a calculated value (Rightwords(Lastname;1)).
Timestamp
A field type combining date and time that is compatible with the ODBC requirement for the SQL
format [yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm:ss.sss].
Tooltip
A small box that displays text when a user moves the cursor over a layout object. Tooltips
display in Browse, Find, and Layout modes.
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Unicode
A worldwide standard that, in one code page, provides a unique number for every character in
human languages, no matter what the platform, software program, or operating system.