Controls

What is a Chart?
What is a Gantt chart?
What is a Calendar?
What is a Button?
What is a Hyperlink?
What is a Radio Button?
What is a Field?
What is a Picture?
What is a List Box?
What is a Spreadsheet Document Field?
What is a Text Document Field?
What is a Slider?
What is a Separator?
What is a Table Box?
What is a Checkbox?
What is a Spreadsheet Document Field?
What is an HTML Document Field?

Chart

A chart is used to graphically display some numeric values. Usually a chart makes it possible to provide details for values. When you mouse over an area that supports detailing, the cursor changes to an arrow with magnifying glass. When you double-click it, a separate window containing the details will be opened.

A chart can contain a hyperlink (see Hyperlink).

Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart (also referred to as a bar chart) is a chart of intervals along the time scale. It enables you to display a work schedule or resource allocation plan over time for a set of objects in an easy-to-read form.

Calendar

The Calendar control is designed to select and display a date in a calendar.

Button

Buttons are used to execute actions predefined by the application. To select a button, you can either click it with your mouse or activate it using the Tab or Shift + Tab keys and press Enter.

One button of a form may be a default button (usually OK), and it can be pressed either with your mouse or with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Enter.

Hyperlink

A Hyperlink is intended to perform certain actions, such as opening other forms. Normally when you mouse over a hyperlink, the cursor changes to a hand . To select a hyperlink, click it with your mouse or activate it using the Tab or Shift + Tab keys and press Enter.

Radio Button

The Radio Button control is designed to select one of several possible values. To select the required value, click its field or use Tab or Shift+Tab keys.

Text Box

Text boxes are used to enter and edit data. Data can be entered manually (using the keyboard) or by selecting values from lists. To complete editing, press Enter, Tab, Shift+Tab or click another control with your mouse.

A text box may also be used to work with multi-line text. In this case pressing Enter adds a new line.
If advanced edit mode is enabled for a text box (defined during configuration development), pressing TAB will not allow you navigate to the next form control (instead the tab character will be inserted).

See also: Etering Information in a Form

Pictures

Pictures may contain hyperlinks. When you mouse over a picture with a hyperlink, the cursor will change to a hand .

See also: Using Keyboard Shortcuts for a Picture Field

List Box

In a list box, every value is displayed in a separate row.

You can view a list using the cursor control keys and the scroll bar. In some cases a form may provide for special actions for double-clicking in a list row. The set of list rows may be changed using other form controls.

Some forms use labeled lists. In these lists, you can place a label in the left part of each row. To do so, click the label field or press the spacebar. Labeled lists are normally used for simultaneous selection of multiple objects or modes.

Spreadsheet Document Field

A form can contain Spreadsheet Document controls. For information on working with a spreadsheet document, see Spreadsheet Editor.

Text Document Field

A form can contain Text Document controls. For information on working with text documents, see Text Editor.

Slider

The Slider control is used for quick and visual input of numerical values. It looks like an ordinary linear slider positioned vertically or horizontally. A value is defined by the slider position. A slider can be moved with your mouse or cursor control keys.

Separator

A separator allows shrinking or stretching a part of a form. It is a narrow vertical or horizontal stripe. When you point to it, the mouse pointer changes to  or , and the separator can be dragged.

Table Box

A form can contain Table Box controls (for more details, see "Working with Table Boxes).

A form may contain one or multiple table boxes. A table box consists of several columns and is designed to view a large number of rows. When editing table box rows, the columns also act as editable attributes.

Checkbox

The Checkbox control is designed to toggle a value.

To toggle value of a checkbox, click it with your mouse or activate it using the Tab or Shift + Tab keys and press the Spacebar.

Spreadsheet Document Field

The spreadsheet document field form control is intended to display information as a spreadsheet. Normally results of a report are output into such a field. The field itself contains a spreadsheet document. In this event spreadsheet documents can contain other controls while cells and groups of cells (areas) can support the so-called detalization, i.e. allow you to obtain a detailed report or information on the data located in this area. When you hover your mouse over such an area, it changes its appearance to crosshair with a magnifying glass . Pressing Enter in such an area will result in generation of a new report (as defined during task configuration development by the developer). If the data is a reference to a database object (for example, a catalog item value, a document, etc.), an object form is opened.

See also:  Spreadsheet Editor

HTML Document Field

The HTML document field form control is intended to display information as hypertext. As with any hypertext, in addition to formatted text this box may include hyperlinks, pictures, tables, etc. Usually a form includes a command bar connected to the HTML document box. Such a panel contains navigation commands (in compliance with navigation history). The search, save, and print commands are available for HTML document box as well.

Note that when you use HTML document field some HTML functionality may not be supported. Limitations may be caused by specific features of HTML operations in 1C:Enterprise forms in different web browsers.