• A Conditional Object Example
• About Forms and Browses
• Accented Characters
• Adding Users from the Desktop
• Changing Custom Menus and Toolbars at Runtime
• Circular Tabbing on a Form
• Creating a Maximized Application with a Menu
• Creating Alpha Anywhere Help Text
• Creating Alpha Anywhere Help Text - AlphaSports
• Creating and Assigning a Startup Form
• Creating and Using a Conditional Object
• Creating Custom Menus
• Creating Menu Forms
• Creating the InvoiceItemsPie Form
• Creating Wallpaper for Your Application
• Design a Custom Menu
• Designing an Application for Alpha Five Runtime
• Displaying a Form as a Dialog Box
• Displaying the Main Menu
• Dynamic Internationalization for Desktop Application Forms and Reports
• Editing Objects
• Editing System Menus
• Editing System Toolbars
• Filter Builder
• Find by Form
• Find by Key
• Find Text
• Follow Changes and Enters
• Form Editor Control Library
• Form Events
• Form Headers and Footers
• Form Layout - Mouse Cursor Property
• Genies
• Linking to a External Help File Topic
• Managing Style Properties
• Methods for Opening Forms and Browses
• Modal and Modeless Data Entry
• Navigation
• Object Explorer
• OnKey Events on Forms
• Placing a Conditional Object
• Placing a Control on a Form
• Placing Bitmaps on a Form
• Placing Hotspots
• Placing Hyperlinks, Mail-to Links, and FTP Links on a Form
• Placing Lines and Frames
• Placing Subforms
• Prompting for User Input
• Put a Button on a Form to Open Another Form Showing Selected Records
• Put a Button on a Form to Send a Customized Email
• Query
• Querying and Sorting Child Tables on a Form
• Quick Import for a Form or Browse
• Reading From and Writing To the Data Dictionary
• Relative Addresses
• Running a Script with a Function Key
• Sales People Form
• Selecting and Opening a Form
• Selecting the Appropriate View of Your Data
• Setting Form Properties
• Setting Form Restrictions
• Setting the Tab Order
• Specifying a Window
• Startup Form Design Examples
• Synchronizing Form and Embedded Browse Record Navigation
• The Customer Information Form
• The CustQueryReport Form
• The Edit_Customer_Info Form
• The Inventory Form
• The Invoice Form
• The InvoiceItemsPie Form
• The InvoiceReportMenu Form
• The Items Form
• The Main Menu Form
• The Vendors Form
• The Window Bar
• Understanding Levels in a Form
• Using a Dialogasa Search Form
• Using a Form
• Using the Form Editor
• Using the Navigator
• Using the New Form Genie

Setting Form Restrictions

Description

A list of the types of form restrictions that you can set.

Types of Restrictions

It is possible for you to prevent your user from using any of the following functions when viewing a table through a form.

• Enter Record

  Prevents the user from entering a new record.

• Change Record

  Prevents the user from saving a changed record.

• Delete Record

  Prevents the user from deleting a record.

• Find Commands

  Prevents the user from using the Find by Key function (Control K).

• Query Commands

  Prevents the user from using the Query by Form (Control B), Quick Filter, and Query Genie (Control Q) functions.

• Select Index

  Prevents the user from using the Select Index/Query function (Control I).

• Select Range

  Prevents the user from selecting the Records/Advanced/Apply Range command to order and/or filter the current selection of records.

• Navigate

  Prevents the user from navigating from the current record to any other record.

• Open/Edit Layouts

  Prevents the user from using the Design function.

• Continuous Enters

  Prevents the user from automatically beginning a new record when pressing Enter or Tab when in the last field of a new record.

• Browse Mode

  Prevents the user from switching the form to browse view (F8).

The following procedure assumes that the developer has opened the form in the Form Editor. Follow these instructions to set form restrictions similar to those of CustQueryReport :

1. Right click on the form's background (avoiding all placed objects).

2. Select Properties....

3. In the Restrictions list of the Form tab place checkmarks next to the "Enter Record" and "Delete Record" items.

   

4. Click the OK button to return to the Form Editor.