Managing the View

Save and Restore Settings

When leaving the window your personal settings for the list box will be saved for you automatically. These settings will then be recalled and used the next time the window is instantiated.

Drag and Drop Column Movement

This setting allows you to move columns (left or right) using drag and drop. To drag and drop a column simply point to the desired column, click and hold the left mouse button then drag the column to the desired "new" position.

"Smart" Column Resizing

This allows you to double-click on the column resize line to automatically adjust the column width to the widest area occupied by the displayed column contents.

Column Heading Popup (Context) Menu

This option allows you to retrieve a context menu by right-clicking on the list box column heading. This context menus allows you to Hide the selected column or Show a currently hidden column.

To hide a specific column simply right-click on the desired column and select the "Hide Column" menu option. To show a hidden column simply click on any column heading, select "Show Column..." then choose the desired column

Dynamic Sort Capabilities

View Wizard will allow the end-user to modify the browse's runtime sort order. View Wizard provides several dynamic sorting options to the end user.

The end user will be allowed to:

1. Select the default sort order

2. Select from a list of existing keys

3. Build an ad-hoc dynamic sort order

4. Click on list box column headings to determine the sort field (when enabled)

Dynamic Sorting Via Column Headings

This option will provide menu options for Ascending and Descending sort selection from the column heading context sensitive popup menu. To invoke a sort on a specific column simply right-click on the desired column and select the "Sort..." menu option.