Add New Child
Button that allows the user to add a new row in the grid.
Allow Filtering
Grid property that allows the user to filter the grid by entering specific criteria for the particular grid column value that is already loaded to the grid.
Allow Grouping
Grid property that allows the user to sort collections into groups by specific column values.
Associated Control ID
Property that applies to caption labels. ID of the field control the caption applies to.
Business Object
Object that maps relationships between data objects and other business objects. It hosts the business logic.
Business Tier
Also called the application server, it acts as the go-between for the webserver and database. It contains the business logic.
Button
Control that executes a method when clicked.
Call Methods
List of methods of the framework and business object.
Captcha
Captcha control allows users to add a captcha to the form. It is used to determine whether the user is human or a computer.
Cascading Drop Down
Series of drop downs whose available content depends on the end-user's entry in the prior drop down.
Checkbox
Control that allows the end-user to indicate whether a state is true.
Checkbox List
Control that allows the end-user to select multiple states as true.
Clear Controls Data
Button that allows users to clear the data entered in a particular control.
Close Popup Dialog
Button that closes the popup dialog window without saving the data.
Code Group
Code table ID for the code ID-value pairing that populates a control.
Create Compatible Caption
Right-click property of a control from the horizontal menu. It creates a caption matching with the control.
Data Object
Reference of a database table in C#. The data object defines the database table and the columns in a table in a way that can be used in C# and in S3.
Dialog Panel
Control that allows the user to enter and update grid data through a popup window.
Drop Down
Control that allows the end-user to choose one value from a list.
Editable
Grid and checkbox property that allows the user to edit the grid data and the checkbox value.
Entity
S3 file that contains the XML properties for the table's business and data objects: queries, methods, column properties, object properties, parent/child relationships, field constraints, rules, etc. It is a collection of similar objects.
Entity Attributes
Displays the objects you can use to configure the object you have open (or are creating) in S3.
Entity Field
Displays the entity from which you can select and add the fields.
Execute Method and Refresh
Button that executes a method from the business object and then refreshes the data from the database.
Field Constraints
Constraints or basic hard errors like required, max and min value, and length checks with a specific message or generic message.
Filter Grid
Button that allows the user to filter the grid data by executing the query on the application side. Used for server side filtering.
Finish Popup Dialog
Button that closes the popup dialog and saves the data entered.
Form Name (ID)
Programmatic ID of the form.
Form Object
Object the form is based on.
Form Title
Displays at the top of the form; what the form is "called".
Grid Add New Item
Button that adds a new row to the grid.
Grid Chart
Control that drops a chart on the form.
Grid Delete Items
Button that deletes selected rows from the grid.
Grid Delete Last Item
Button that deletes the last row from the grid.
Grid Select Item
Button that selects a particular grid row.
Grid Update Item Data
Button that updates the grid data.
Hard Error Group
Group of rules that, if evaluated to true, will not allow the user to save the record in the database.
Hyperlink
Control that navigates to the control's active form.
ID
Programmatic ID of the control.
Image
Control that displays an image. This image comes from the MVVM project image folder.
Initial Load Group
Group of rules that executes when the form is loaded.
Label
Read-only text. In a panel or tab, it can identify the adjacent control. In a grid, it expresses a table column value.
Linkable
Property that links any control type to the method the developer wants to execute.
Navigation Parameter
Property that takes a unique field as a parameter to navigate to the specified maintenance form.
New Popup Dialog
Button that opens a new popup window for the user to enter a new record for the grid.
Next Record
Button that navigates to the next record.
Open Details Record
Button that opens the details of the record.
Open Popup Dialog
Button that opens a grid record in a popup window.
Panel
Control that allows the user to edit the grid through a separate panel on the same application page.
Radio Button
Control that allows the end-user to indicate something is true.
Radio Button List
Control that allows an end-user to select one of multiple states as true.
Refresh Data
Button that clears the data.
Related Control
Property that identifies the button the developer wants to execute.
Related Grid
Property that identifies the grid the developer wants to affect.
Retrieve Button
Button that opens a popup lookup screen so the end-user can search for a value to populate the related control.
Save and New
Button that saves the existing record and creates a new one.
Save and Next
Button that saves the existing record and navigates to the next one.
Save Data
Button that simply saves the data entered by the end-user.
Selection
Grid property that defines the ability to select records: no ability, single record, or multiple records.
Tab Container
Within a panel, container that divides the data into further parts.
Text
Property that displays for the user as the "name" of the control.
Textbox
Control that allows the end-user to freely enter the text as a value.
Visible
Property that makes a control visible or invisible.
Visible Rule
Property that controls when the control is visible.
Wfm
Web form. Nomenclature for form XML files in S3. For example, wfmPersonMaintenance is the Person Maintenance form.
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