Using the Property Panel for Form Properties

In the Form Designer, the Property Panel appears directly below the Form Outline Panel. When you click the root node in the Form Outline Panel, the properties for the form will display in the Property Panel. When you click on the root form node, the properties for the entire form appear in the Property Panel.

There are so many form properties available that groups are necessary to organize them. The most essential properties appear at the top of the General Settings panel, but you can explore and many other useful properties. Below, you can learn more about unpinning the property panel, property groups, how to access configuration details for some of the complex properties, and optional properties.

Unpinning the Property Panel

You can unpin the Element Properties panel by clicking the small pin icon in the upper right corner. This allows more flexibility in using the Form Designer. By unpinning this panel, you can move it around the desktop and increase its size, and this allows you to see more properties at once. In turn, you can also see much more of the Form Outline Panel, which is particularly useful if there are many form elements or several pages in your form. You can also resize the panel by clicking-and-dragging the borders of the panel.

Property Groups

Here we see an image of the Form Property Panel. We've made it small, as you may also do by clicking-and-dragging the borders of the panel.

This is a collection of form properties. Notice that there are three groups of properties. Several properties are visible for the topmost group: Form Name, Description, Actions, and Page Title are shown in the Form General Setting group. In this example, we could view more properties by clicking-and-dragging the bottom border of the panel.

We can also see two other groups: Form Validation Settings and Form Layout & Alignment Properties. To expand or collapse these groups, you simply click on the small +/- buttons along the right edge of the panel. Only one property panel group remains open at a time. When you expand another group, any open group will collapse.

See Also

Introduction to Validation

Layout Basics