The group controls provide the second level of structure within a page. The group controls are the home for fields. Almost every page has at least one group control. The following screenshot from page 5600 Fixed Asset Card, with all of the group controls collapsed, shows two container controls and three group controls. Also showing is a page part control that displays a page part as a FastTab:
The properties of a group control are shown in the following screenshot:
Several of the group control properties are particularly significant because of their effect on all of the fields within the group.
- Visible: This can be TRUE or FALSE, defaulting to TRUE. The Visible property can be assigned a Boolean expression, which can be evaluated during processing. This allows to dynamically change the visibility of a group of fields during the processing, based on some variable conditions (dynamic processing must occur in either the OnInit, OnOpenPage, or OnAfterGetCurrRecord...
