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Designer places a number field on the form and displays the corresponding Properties editor.
The Properties editor displays five tabs for defining number field properties:
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For details of the Extra and Notes tabs, refer to section 6.4.3 “Defining Element-independent
Properties” on page 139.
Defining a Number Field’s Number Properties
Figure 125: Number Tab
1. The Dataset field asks you to define a dataset for the system to use with this field. The
default option is (folder), which indicates that you will not be using a dataset with this field.
Using a dataset means that any required information necessary for calculating the information
displayed in this field will be read directly from the dataset rather than require an additional
call to the database. Any datasets previously defined for use with this form will be displayed
in the drop-down list. For more information on creating datasets, see the Defining a Dataset
Field topic in this section.
2. Enter the variable you wish this field to use in the Variable field. There are a number of
options:
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