Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Browser toolbar

The browser toolbar looks like the one shown in Figure 8–26.

Figure 8–26: Browser toolbar

It has a special band of Update buttons. These are designed not to edit a record in place, but to launch a separate container window for record maintenance. To enable this, you must define the Launch Container property for the browser in the window. Likewise, double-clicking on one of the records in the browser brings up the separate container window to edit the selected record. The toolbar also has a Find and Filter band.

When the user chooses the Find or Filter button, a separate dynamic window appears, as shown in Figure 8–27. Use this window to create a subset of the records in the query or locate a particular record.

Figure 8–27: Filter window

There is also a band of buttons that:

Allow records in the browser to be exported to a Print Preview window or to Excel.
Associate an Audit record or a Comment with the currently selected record.
Provide status information for the record.

For example, when you choose Print Preview, the contents of the browser are sent in XML format to the default Windows Internet browser, as shown in Figure 8–28.

Figure 8–28: Print Preview example

When you choose Audit, an audit history for the record appears, as shown in Figure 8–29.

Figure 8–29: Audit Control

When you choose Comments, the Comments Control window appears. Here you can view, add, or edit comments of any kind for this record.