Editing Buttons

When you want to edit a button, you start from the Buttons section on the Page Definition. You can edit the attributes of a button, edit multiple buttons at once, or change a button position within a region.

Topics:

Editing Button Attributes
Editing Multiple Buttons a Once
Using the Reorder Buttons Icon in Component View

Editing Button Attributes

You can edit button attributes on the Edit Pages Buttons page.

To edit attributes for an existing button:

Navigate to the appropriate Page Definition. See "Accessing the Page Definition".
Access the Edit Page Buttons page:
- Tree view- Under Page Rendering, double-click the button name.
- Component view - Under Button, select the button name.
  
  The Edit Page Buttons page appears.
To learn more about a specific item on a page, click the item label.

When Help is available, the item label changes to red when you pass your cursor over it and the cursor changes to an arrow and question mark. See "About Field-Level Help".
Click Apply Changes.

About Execute Validations

The Execute Validations attribute controls the execution of validations when a page is submitted. Set this attribute to No to prevent the execution of validations and associated error messages (for example, in the case of a Cancel button or Delete button). Set this attribute to Yes to execute all page and built-in validations and associated error messages when the page is submitted.

Use this attribute in conjunction with the validation attribute, Always Execute. To learn more, see "Creating a Validation".

Editing Multiple Buttons a Once

Use the Buttons page to delete multiple buttons or view a history of recent changes.

To edit multiple buttons at once:

Navigate to the appropriate Page Definition. See "Accessing the Page Definition".
Access the Edit Page Buttons page:
- Tree view- Under Page Rendering, right-click the button name and select Edit All.
- Component view - Click the Edit All icon. The Edit All icon resembles a small grid with a pencil on top of it.
  
  The Buttons page appears. The Buttons page contains a table listing the buttons in the region.

Deleting Multiple Buttons

To delete multiple buttons at once:

Navigate to the appropriate Page Definition. See "Accessing the Page Definition".
Access the Edit Page Buttons page:
- Tree view- Under Page Rendering, right-click the button name and select Edit All.
- Component view - Click the Edit All icon. The Edit All icon resembles a small grid with a pencil on top of it.
  
  The Buttons page appears. T
Click Delete Multiple Buttons.

The Delete Multiple Buttons page appears.
Select the buttons to delete and click Remove Buttons.

History

Use the History page to view a summary of recent edits to buttons.

Using the Reorder Buttons Icon in Component View

In Component view, you can quickly edit a button label or change a button position within a region on the Reorder Buttons page. The Reorder Region Buttons icon resembles a light gray downward arrow and upward arrow and displays next to the region name.

To edit buttons using the Reorder Region Buttons icon:

Navigate to the appropriate Page Definition in Component view. See "Switching Between Tree and Component View".
Under Buttons, click the Reorder Region Buttons icon.

The Reorder Buttons page appears. Use this page to edit the button label, select a region position, or change the button order.
To edit the button label, enter a name in the Label field.
To change the region position, make a selection from the Position list.
To change the order in which buttons display, click the up and down arrows in the far right column.

Note that you can also control the order in which buttons display by editing the Sequence attribute. See "Editing Button Attributes".
Click Apply Changes.

Note:

To change the region where a button resides, you must edit the button attributes. See "Editing Button Attributes".