Changing View Display Properties

You can change views to display alternate window titles and column labels, make column data editable or display-only, omit or change the order of certain columns in the view, and so forth. This section includes tables listing several view properties that you can change, as well as view properties that you should not change. (For complete information on configuring Horizon views, see “Configuring Horizon Windows” in the Table Structures Guide.)

Use caution when omitting columns from views. Horizon relies on the existence of some columns in order to display list and edit windows correctly. If you omit columns from an alternate view display, you should experiment with the alternate views in a test or training database to see if Horizon displays the list and edit windows of the view correctly.

View Display Properties That You Can Change

To change this display property

See

Window title
Editing records (rows in a list window)
Deleting records (rows in a list window)
Adding records (rows in a list window)

Specifying General Properties.

Displaying/hiding display columns in a list window
Showing long/short column values in a list window

Specifying List Properties

Displaying/hiding display fields in an edit window
Default value displayed in field

Specifying Edit Properties

Field or column label
Number of display characters in a column or field

Specifying List Properties or Specifying Edit Properties

Mq_view Properties That You Should Not Change

If you make changes to any of the properties listed in this table, you may cause serious problems with your Horizon system.

 

For more information

See

Slice
Xrefs
Columns: ‘ord’
Creation Date
Update Date
Base Table Name

Specifying General Properties

All properties

Specifying Column Types

All properties

Specifying Column Values

 

Once you make changes to the alternate mq_view that you created, you must close and re-open the Table Editor before you can assign any alternate mq_views to view sets.

 


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