Field Formatting

Choose Field Labels:

The field names used by the database are often short and cryptic so you can custimize what you would like to be displayed as the field name here.  Click on any field name and enter the text you would like to be used as its label.

Choose Tooltips:

Tooltips are little windows with special instructions that will open to the end user when they hover over the fieldname.   This is useful if the title you give your fieldname is not descriptive enough and you need to impart some more detailed instructions on how to fill out the field. By default the instructions you type will be used on the both the add form and the edit detail form.  Because the search form will usually involve a different set of instructions for the end user you can simple choose this additional formatting by selecting "Tooltips add/edit" or "Tooltips search" .

You have the option of the tooltip alignment in relation to the field name on the page as shown below.   The chosen setting below will cause the tooltip to hover just to the left of the field label.   The checkbox for the "Field Title" will include the Field Title at the top of the tooltip.  You can see the result in the image just below the setting.

This is a screen capture of a generated page using the tooltip with the Left Alignment and the Field Title.   To trigger the tooltip on the generated page the end user will hover over the question mark symbol next to the Field Title causing the tooltip to display.

Choose Date Format:

By default the date format is "MM/DD/YYYY" but you can change how this is displayed.

Choose Currency Formatting:

All numeric fields that have been chosen for either the search form or detail pages will show up as candidates for currency formatting.   If you wish to format one of these available numeric fields then simply check the fieldname.   The formatting will show up with 2 decimal format and currency symbol.

  

Choose 2 Column Format:

By default ASaP will display fields on the pages using 1 column with the exception of the search results page. You can choose which pages you would like to display the information in 2 columns here to conserve real estate on your pages.

Choose HTML area fields

This will be available for memo type fields only. You can now choose which memo fields you would like to have HTML type formatting. This includes the ability to markup text as bold, italic, choose fonts, colors, bulleted items, horizontal rules, tables, center text, include images and hyperlinks.

We have also recently added the option to use the more popular tinyMCE HTMLarea script.     If you choose tinyMCE as your HTMLarea script then you will need to upload the entire tinyMCE folder to your website to make it available to the generated ASaP pages.    There will be a place on the Generate Screen within ASaP to locate and mark where the tinyMCE folder is located in relation to your generated pages so that the pages can take advantage of the script.  As you can see below there are additional options when you choose the tinyMCE script.    The options are Simple, Advanced, & Full depending on the needs of your HTMLarea within the ASaP pages.   You can find out more about the tinyMCE htmlarea option by clicking here....TinyMCE Website.  

Below is an example of a generated page using HTML area formatting.   A field that might otherwise have been a simple text box now has the ability to format text and graphics as HTML.