Cross-domain service access in Silverlight Silverlight uses services as its primary source of retrieving data across domain boundaries. To prevent applications from launching malicious attacks on web sites, Silverlight uses opt-in cross-domain access. A web site needs to be allowed to receive and respond to requests being made from a particular domain. This safe-guarding role […]
You can implement an auditing procedure for your data forms using the “After Update Post Url” property (Options tab). If you declare a web page in that property, a web post containing the action (preinsert, preupdate, predelete, postinsert, postupdate, postdelete) and a list of field name/field value pairs, will be made after each insert, update or […]
Navigate to Attachments Tab. A user can add attachments in two different ways, by browsing for files or by dragging and dropping files on the Existing Attachments area. Browsing for Attachments: Select . The new Browse Feature allows multiple files selection from the same location or multiple browse actions to select files from multiple locations. Select the desired […]
In the Querystring, you can define values that will be used as default values for a new record. The keyword “ID” is reserved and when used in the querystring, the form tries to load the record with the ID specified. All the other field names can be used to apply default values in the form […]
How to delete web parts in any web part page First navigate to the page that has the problematic web part. Then at the end of the url add the url parameter Contents=1. This will open the page in ‘Maintenance’ mode. Now all the web parts can be viewed, even those with errors. Users can select and […]
PowerForms can be localized through the Localization Section in the designer. A list containing all the texts appearing inside forms either in controls, buttons or messages is displayed and the user can change the required texts. The list supports Unicode so changing the texts to fit your needs should not be a problem. For performance […]
PowerForms enables users to identify the preferred Locale and Calendar Type for each form. (v.2.4) PowerForms automatically recognizes the server locale and default calendar type and uses these settings to display data and perform data conversions (in formulas and script). Two new properties have been added in the Form Options editor that allow users to […]
PowerForms provides an out of the box printing functionality using the layout of the run-time designer configuration. In order to build our own custom reports, we have to use the XSLT based printing provided by PowerForms. This is a step by step guide on designing your custom reports for users with minimum or no prior knowledge of XSLT. Since […]
Users can create their own custom print layout using XSLT file. The xml file that we use to extract the data from the form is the one below: The control c_Feedback is a DataEntryGrid control and the extra elements ‘Values’ and ‘Record’ are used to describe its fields and values. An xslt file should be created that […]
Applies to PowerForms Advanced Since version 2.6, PowerForms supports direct SQL Queries that can be used to provide lookup data for lookup controls (such ComboBoxes). For security reasons, the actual sql query is not defined inside PowerForms designer but another setup model has been adopted : A custom list should be created server-side. The definition […]