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Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

Migrate Customization : Example

In this article we will follow the required steps to migrate our customizations to another server/site. We will use the example site which can be created by the Installation Wizard of PowerForms. Our site if located in the url : http://wssdev1/PowerForms Demo Site We will save our site as a site template and use that […]

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

Setting Column Span / Row Span for Controls

A newly added feature in Power Forms Designer allows the user to easily modify a control’s column / row span using the designer view. Using buttons placed on the control, the user can easily and effectively design the look of a control and subsequently, the entire form. Hovering over a control causes four buttons to appear on […]

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

Migrate Customization : Example

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

Setting Column Span / Row Span for Controls

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Migrate Customization : Example

In this article we will follow the required steps to migrate our customizations to another server/site.

We will use the example site which can be created by the Installation Wizard of PowerForms.

Our site if located in the url : http://wssdev1/PowerForms Demo Site

We will save our site as a site template and use that template to create a new site (for our example the site will be created inside the same site collection, but the same methodology can be applied if the site is located elsewhere)

So we create the template including the content.

We then use that template to create a new site.

New URL = http://wssdev1/MyDemo

When opening the Order form from the new site we can see that no customization is available :

So we visit our original site and design the same form there :

We switch in the designer and press the “Migrate Customization” button.

We check the “Export List/View Names instead of IDs” and press OK. Then copy the xml and open our MigrationTool application.

We paste the XML and press “Process: to let the application identify existing lists.

Then we fill in the target site url and press “Migrate”. If not errors occur, the List IDs will be identified and then the user can press “Export” to retrieve the final XML which we can import in our final list.

NOTE : If any list ids or site urls exist inside the customization except lookup and list queries, the users will have to replace them manually.

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Setting Column Span / Row Span for Controls

Hovering over a control causes four buttons to appear on the top right corner. Each of these buttons represents the direction in which the user wants to expand or contract the size of the control. The only restriction set while modifying is that a control will always occupy at least one column and one row.

Pressing the right arrow increases the number of columns occupied by the control. Pressing the left button decreases the number of columns occupied by our control.

Saving our changes, the control’s appearance will be as follows:

Pressing the down arrow increases the number of rows occupied by the control, relative to the other controls residing on the form.

However, this will not increase the actual size of the control. To increase the size of the control, you still have to enter a value as height in the layout properties of the control.

For example, our form contains 5 labels occupying 5 rows on the left side of our form and one textbox occupying one row on the right side. Our goal is to have all 5 labels stacked on the left side of our textbox. The textbox is of height 100. The Form described looks like the following image: