Item List
The Item List displays a list from which dialog forms can be launched that allow supplementary items to be specified.
The dialogs to launch and the information on the dialog forms that is to be passed into the item list control are set by the Items property.
When the form control is applied the name entered will display as the caption for the form control. This can be changed by selecting the Caption property.
Properties
Appearance
- Background Color
Specifies the color of the control's background.
- Column Widths
One or more values delimited by the | symbol. Setting one value applies that width to all columns.
- Name Column Visible
Specifies whether the name column is visible or not.
- Opacity
Specifies the opacity of the control.
Requires a value between 0 (not visible) and 100 (fully visible).
- Show Filler Column
Appends a filler column at the end of each row to fill the remaining control width. If set to FALSE,
the final column of data will expand to fill the remaining control width, regardless of a column
width specified.
- Type Column Visible
Specifies whether the type column is visible or not.
Appearance - Caption
- Caption
Controls the control's caption.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
- Caption Color
Controls the caption color of the control.
- Caption Font
Determines the font used for the controls caption.
- Caption Horizontal Alignment
Controls whether the text inside the caption is horizontally aligned to the left, right or center
Appearance - Text
Behavior
- Enabled
Controls whether the control is enabled (if the result is TRUE) or disabled (if the result is
anything other than TRUE, e.g. FALSE).
- Error Result
Determines whether the value of the control is in error. The result of this rule is a string
containing the error message if the value is in error, otherwise a blank string or the number zero.
- Hidden Item Values
A pipe-bar delimited list of Item Value columns which should not be displayed in the Item List.
- Items
One or more dialog names, delimited by the | symbol, which control which items can be added to the
item list.
- Tab Index
Configures the position of the control in the form tab order.
- Task List Enabled
Specifies whether to enable the task list for a dialog.
- Visible
Determines whether the control is visible (TRUE) or hidden (FALSE).
General
- (Metadata)
Optional text which can be used to provide information belonging to or about a control. For example,
a list of CSS classes which can be parsed and applied to the control using the Integration Theme in
DriveWorks Live. This doesn't affect the control's behavior.
- (Name)
The name of the control
- (Tag)
Optional text which can be used to describe the control, but which doesn't affect the control's
behavior.
- Tooltip Duration
Controls the duration, in seconds, for which the tooltip will remain visible. Values of 0 and below
indicate an infinite duration.
- Tooltip Text
Specifies the text to display in a tooltip when hovering over the control.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
Layout
- Height
Controls the height of the control.
- Left
Controls the left position of the control.
- Top
Controls the top position of the control.
- Width
Controls the width of the control.
Formatting the Displayed Text
Formatting Text
The text displayed in the Caption and Tooltip Text property support the use of formatting tags to format parts of the text string.
The supported tags are:
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Color
- Url (not supported for Tooltip Text)
See How To: Format Text for more information.

A user form control that allows items to be added to the
specification.