E1: FDA: Frequently Asked Questions on Form Design Aid
(Doc ID 626557.1)
Last updated on MARCH 29, 2024
Applies to:
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools - Version 8.98 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
This document contains answers to frequently asked questions on Form Design Aid (FDA).
Questions and Answers
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Questions and Answers |
| General Questions |
| Question 1: Where can I find additional information on Form Design Aid (FDA)? |
| Question 2: Why some application shows a blank form with just standard button and empty grid that says "No records found"? |
| Question 3: How can I determine what tables are updated by a specific form? |
| Question 4: Can you modify a version of an Interactive Application within Form Design Aid? |
| Question 5: What is considered a significant modification to a Standard Application? |
| Form Types |
| Question 1: What Form Types can be Created in FDA? |
| Question 2: What are Power Forms? |
| Question 3: Why does the form mode change automatically from Update Mode to Add Mode? |
| Question 4: Why does a Headerless Detail defined as an entry point open in Update Mode rather then Add Mode? |
| Question 5: What determines the value that is returned from a Search and Select Form? |
| Question 6: Why is a new Search and Select Form not available from the Visual Assist tab in Data Dictionary? |
| Question 7: In a Headerless Detail form, why is an UPDATE statement issued upon all the rows in the grid? |
| Question 8: In a Headerless Detail or Header Detail form, is there a grid feature to prevent users from adding records in the grid? |
| Question 9: How does a form that allows for adds and updates determine whether it is in Add mode or Update mode? |
| Question 10: Is there a way to prevent a Headerless Detail form from exiting upon pressing the OK button? |
| Question 11: How can I get a Header Detail to automatically populate the grid when the form is opened through a Form Interconnect? |
| Question 12: How do I design Portlet Forms in Form Design Aid? |
| Question 13: How to identify applications using a specific form type ? |
| Question 14: How to set form mode to Add mode on entry into Headerless Detail form that is not attached with a business view |
| Controls |
| Question 1: How do I define a grid to work with Multiple Select? |
| Question 2: How do you use a Combo Box? |
| Question 3: How do I indicate that a field is a required field on a form and have an error result if the field is left blank? |
| Question 4: When attempting to change the font on a field in FDA, I am not seeing the change? |
| Question 5: How do you make Radio Buttons mutually exclusive? |
| Question 6: How can I specify a default radio button on a form? |
| Question 7: What controls when tabs will display side-by-side or in a dropdown menu on web clients? |
| Question 8: Is there a way to control the display of the tab pages between displaying across the form or displaying in a dropdown list? |
| Question 9: Text Block Control font style and size is not saved. |
| Question 10: Is there a way to format static text on the form so it displays in italic, bold or underline? |
| Question 11: Can Grid Control display side by side to the left of Media Object Control ? |
| Question 12: Is it possible to move the grid entry row to the top instead of scroll to the end to access the blank row ? |
| Question 13: Is it possible to disable the blank character defaulted in empty Edit controls ? |
| Question 14: Is it possible to add form controls in message forms? |
| Question 15: Is it possible to merge two existing forms to create a new form ?For example , is it possible to merge form A and form B to create a form C? |
| Question 16: Where is the setting to turn off (bypass) an initial data fetch on a form? |
| Menu/Toolbar Exits |
| Question 1: After creating a new Row/Form Exit on an Application, why does it not display when running the application? |
| Question 2: Why are the sequence button on the toolbar and the sequence grid option disabled when running certain applications? |
| Question 3: How can I add a Bitmap to a Row or Form Exit? |
| Question 4: For some Form/Row exits in an application, the Form/Row exit disappears when user tries to select it. Why? |
| Question 5: Form/Row exit disabled via ER system function Disable Control does not display on the web client, why? |
| Question 6: Sub Menu on the Application Menu Does Not Go Away When Navigating Multiple Sub Menus |
| Question 7: Is there a way to suppress the delete confirmation dialog box when users press the standard Delete action button on an EnterpriseOne form? |
| Question 8: Which table contains row and form exit descriptions? |
| Question 9: Is there a way to increase the icon size of Menu/Toolbar Exits? |
| Events |
| Question 1: In Headerless Detail form event 'Row Is Entered' is not fired on selecting last empty grid row for event rule processing |
| Question 2: In Headerless Detail or Find Browse form event 'Row Is Entered' is not fired when first row is auto-selected on entry |
| Event Rules |
| Question 1: How are Event Rules used within Form Design Aid? |
| Question 2: ER system function Hide Grid Row takes a long time to process in interactive applications. |
| Question 4: ER system function Insert Grid Buffer Row generates warning below in the jas log, what does it mean? |
| Question 5: Is there a way to change the color of a button using ER in FDA? |
| Updates |
| Question 1: When adding a new business view field to the grid of a standard E1 application, the field is not being populated to the table? |
| Question 2: After adding some additional columns to my table, business view and application, the new fields do not display on selects and are not being updated to the table? AS400 Specific |
| Other Functionality |
| Question 1: How can I determine within Form Design Aid if Vocabulary Overrides exist for any fields on the form? |
| Question 2: How is QBE Functionality set in FDA? What causes a QBE Column to be disabled or grayed-out? |
| Question 3: How do you program Hot Keys in an application? |
| Question 4: How do I integrate Form Design Aid with Oracle Business Intelligence? |
| Question 5: How to change tab sequence of a form in FDA? |
| Question 6: Starting with tools release 9.1, form designed as Search and Select in FDA opens as inline pop-up window via ER form interconnect or Visual Assist. |
| Question 7: Is it possible to resize a modal search form window which is opened as inline pop-up window via ER form interconnect or Visual Assist in 9.2.* tools release? |
| Question 9: How to find the Entry Point form name in an application so that the form name can be populated in ER system function Dynamic Form Interconnect(Web Only) |
| Question 10: Add Effective Date functionality to UDC |
| Question 11: How do you enable both check boxes so that the form can be run on both the Windows client and the Web client? |
| Question 12: How to display a custom message or a pop-up message from an existing form? |
| Question 13: Is it possible to set Modal forms to always open in Maximized mode or Non-Maximize mode? |
| Question 14: Is it possible to embed a JAVA tool or applet in form by using FDA ? |
| Question 15: What designates the version called from an application? |
| Question 16: Is there a report or cross-reference program that provides a list of modal forms that are used? |
| Question 17: Can the Description 02 for a standard UDC be enabled, if it is not enabled by default? |
| Troubleshooting |
| Question 1: How do I activate logging to troubleshoot an application on a Web Development workstation? |
| Question 2: After upgrading to a new release level, is there a way to compare the application in the current release to the previous release? |
| Question 3: How to find custom code that is causing issue ? |
| References |