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Page links relating to how to topics.

• How a Grid in a Tabbed UI Pane can invoke Methods on a Grid in another Tabbed UI Pane V11

• How Auto-Increment Fields Work

• How Pages are Rendered

• How to add Users to Groups in Security

• How to avoid write conflicts on datetime fields

• How to Base a Grid on a Stored Procedure

• How to build a new web user registration

• How to bulk geocode addresses in a database V11

• How to Call a Dialog Component from a Grid and Pass Information from the Dialog Back to the Grid V11

• How to call a SQL Server stored procedure from a Grid

• How to call a SQL Server stored procedure with parameters from Xbasic

• How to Change the Grid Base Filter using Automation

• How to Close a Pop-up Ajax Window

• How to Color Alternating Rows in an Browse

• How to Color Columns in a Browse

• How to configure a Postgres connection

• How to Connect to SQL Server from 64-bit Windows

• How to Create a Dynamic Title for a Grid Detail View in a Pop-up Ajax Window

• How to Create a SQL Database

• How to Create a SQL Trace from within Alpha Anywhere

• How to Create an Arbitrary Window and Put Content in it from a Grid

• How to Create an ODBC trace file

• How to debug an Alpha Anywhere

• How to Debug Image File Reference Fields

• How to Debug Image File Reference Images Not Displaying Correctly in a Grid

• How to decide between Hiding a Column in the Grid and setting a Field's Controltype to Hidden

• [How to Define Dynamic Content for a Grid Tab or Accordion Control Pane]

• How to delete all rows of a grid

• How to Design a Custom Menu

• How to Design a Custom Toolbar

• How to determine the current Alpha Anywhere server version

• How to determine the location of the Application Server configuration file being used by the current instance of Alpha

• How to download Visual Studio 2010 builds of Alpha Anywhere

• How to Dynamically Change the Number of New Record Rows Shown in a Grid V11

• How to dynamically connect to a database using an encrypted password

• How to Dynamically Construct SQL Statements

• How to Dynamically Set a Grid Field Label

• How to Dynamically Set the Client-side Mask

• How to Dynamically Show and Hide the Grid Alphabet Buttons Search Bar

• How to end a string with a backslash

• How to execute scripts on a repeating schedule

• How to fix incorrect report page totals

• How To Force onChange events to Fire when a Field's Value is set by a Lookup Fillin

• How to format a date and or time

• How to Get a Pointer to a Grid's Parent Object

• How to Get F1 Help for functions

• How to get the current date or time

• How to give Desktop Application Forms and Reports Dynamic Internationalization

• How to hide a button in the detail view if you are on a new record

• How to hide the tab band that appears at the top of the Tab UI Component

• How to implement comma_to_crlf honoring delimiters

• How to import mixed format columns from Excel with AlphaDAO

• How to Include User Defined Controls in a Grid

• How to Insert a NULL value into a Grid Numeric Field Dropdown Control

• How to Install an SSL Server Certificate

• How to install the Alpha Web Application Server on a VPS

• How to link a security login to a user's table

• How to make a grid component use a DBF table in a non-standard directory

• How to make an image blob field display in a report

• How to make the code that hides a column more robust

• How to make User-Defined Functions Available to a Web Application

• How to manually modify the Application Server configuration file

• How to Modify Down Arrow Behavior in a Text Area Control in a Child Grid

• How to optimize an A5W page for SEO

• [How to Override Certain Settings in the .a5w page or in the OnGridExecute event]

• How to Pass Information to a Redirect Page from a Grid

• How to Perform an Ajax Callback in Alpha Anywhere

• How to Perform Client Side Calculations with Non US Number Formats in a Grid

• How to perform common spreadsheet operations

• How to pick an HTTP Function

• How to Place the Detail View above the Grid Part in the Grid Component Master Template

• How to Prevent a Window From Closing if Content is Dirty

• How to Print a Report Showing Currently Selected Records of a Grid

• How to print labels in a PDF

• How to provide both HTTP and SSL services for a single application by using multiple Application Server configuration files

• How to publish multiple web projects and use subfolders

• How to Put Up a Wait Dialog While a Grid is Performing an Ajax Callback

• How to reference a page variable in a client side expression

• How to Refresh a Grid

• How to run multiple applications or web sites by using multiple Application Server configuration files

• How to Run Multiple Instances of the Alpha Anywhere Application Server

• How to run two server instances on the same hostname

• How to script adding all of the images in a directory to the control panel

• How to search Alphapedia

• How to see a Favicon

• How to Set Default Value for a New Record to The Values of the Previously Entered Grid Record

• How to Set the Base or User Filter and Order or Link Definition Programmatically in a Grid

• How to share web security between projects

• How to Show a Control on Only Certain Grid Rows

• How to show the web projects control panel automatically

• How to specify an alternate configuration file for the Application Server

• How to Start a 'Form' Grid in 'Enter new Record Mode'

• How to store a masked field without the literals

• How to Structure Sets

• How to track logins in a SQL table

• How to trap mouse events in an xdialog

• How to turn off the proportional vertical scroll bar

• How to Use a Grid Component Instead of a Dialog Component

• How to Use Branches in Your Scripts

• How to use Custom Controls in a Grid Component

• How to use extended characters in a SQL database from a desktop application

• How to use Oracle Sequences

• How to Use Parameters or Variables in a Query Expression

• How to Use Security Framework Functions in the Server-Side Event Handlers of a Grid

• How to use SSL for only a portion of your application

• How to use System Javascript Fields in User-Defined Javascript Functions

• How to Use the Auto-Load Compiled Library

• How to Use the JQuery Javascript Library with Alpha Anywhere

• How to Use the Report Editor

• How to Use User-Defined Scalar Functions in Oracle and SQL Server

• How to write a socket server in Xbasic

• How Web Security Works