Changing properties

To get started we are going to change some object properties through personalization. There are a number of properties we will change and we will start off by renaming labels of items on the screen. We will also change properties to hide and move or disable fields. We want to change the properties every time we enter the form or block and the triggers that fire on these events are the WHEN-NEW-FORMS-INSTANCE and WHEN-NEW-BLOCK-INSTANCE triggers. In the following recipes, we are going to perform several actions on a WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE trigger as follows:

  • Changing prompts
  • Disabling buttons
  • Renaming tabs
  • Hiding fields
  • Moving fields
  • Testing the form after applying personalization
  • Fixing a personalization that doesn't seem to work ...

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