General Interface

This page describes the parts of the Designer interface that are common to designing all elements.

Tiles

The tiles on Designer's home page give you access to the features in Designer.

To open a Designer tile, select the tile.

Element Lists

When you open a tile, you’ll see a listing page of existing elements (in other words, a list of existing desktops, scripts, and so on).

Here’s a description of the listing page:

Options	Description
	Return to Designer's tiles.
	Add a new element.
Filter	Start typing in this box to filter the list of elements shown. This matches on the Name and Universe fields.
Universe	Filter the list of elements to show only elements for a particular universe.
Select View:	This dropdown is displayed when you have more than one element open. Select an element to view it.
	Design the element.
	Rename the element.
	Unlock the element. Any user can unlock an element locked to any other userSee Unlocking an Element.
	Make a copy of the elementSee Copying an Element.
	Delete the elementSee Deleting an Element.

Views

When you design an element, it opens as a view.

This allows you to work on multiple elements at the same time, and (in the case of desktops and data entry elements) to copy/move controls from one view to another.

1. Show the list of elements
2. Switch between views
3. Close the active view

Containers

In desktops and data entry elements, controls must be added to a container. The container holds the layout of the controls that you add to it.

For example, any controls added to a 100% container take up the full width of the element. A 50%-50% container, on the other hand, has two columns of equal width.

There are various two-column, three-column, and four-column containers that you can use, each with column widths of different sizes.

Control Properties

In the Desktop Designer, Script Designer, and Data Entry Designer, when you open the Properties() for a control, the Control properties sidebar is displayed. Here is what it looks like in the Data Entry Designer:

1. Save/cancel changes
2. Selected control
3. Expand property group
4. Set property

Properties are organized into three groups:

• Required: These properties must be set.
• Optional: These properties control the look and operation of the control.
• Actions: These properties specify the actions that Syntelate XA should perform when the agent, for example, changes the control or gives it focus.

Some controls only have properties in one or two of these groups.