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DataWindow Designer User’s Guide 149
CHAPTER 5
Enhancing DataWindow Objects
About this chapter
Before you put a DataWindow object into production, you can enhance it
to make it easier to use and interpret data. You do that in the DataWindow
painter. This chapter describes basic enhancements you can make to a
DataWindow object.
Contents
Related topics
Other ways to enhance DataWindow objects are covered in later chapters:
Topic Page
Working in the DataWindow painter 150
Using the Preview view of a DataWindow object 158
Saving data in an external file 168
Modifying general DataWindow object properties 171
Storing data in a DataWindow object using the Data view 185
Retrieving data 187
Chapter Explains how to
Chapter 7, “Working with Controls
in DataWindow Objects”
Add controls to a DataWindow object
and reorganize, position, and rotate them
Chapter 6, “Controlling Updates in
DataWindow Objects”
Control update capabilities
Chapter 8, “Displaying and
Validating Data”
Specify display formats, edit styles, and
validation rules for column data
Chapter 9, “Filtering, Sorting, and
Grouping Rows”
Limit which rows are displayed, the
order in which they are displayed, and
whether they are divided into groups
Chapter 10, “Highlighting
Information in DataWindow
Objects”
Highlight data by using conditional
expressions to modify the properties of
controls in DataWindow objects
Chapter 11, “Using Nested
Reports”
Place reports inside DataWindow
objects
Chapter 15, “Working with Graphs” Use graphs to visually present
information retrieved in a DataWindow
object