TASK: Change the order of the fields in a dialog box

In this task you will learn how to change the order of the fields in a dialog box.

In this example we choose the Edit workstate dialog box in the EdAdmin4 application, defined in the EdAdmin4_Config.xml configuration file.

You will be able to perform this task only if:

•You already opened the edadmin4_config.xml file as explained in TASK: Open for editing one or more files with objectUI elements ordered the view as explained in TASK: Display an ordered view of objectUI elements, and located the editWorkstate objectUI.

1.In the editWorkstate section of the EdAdmin4_Config.xml configuration file, drag over the color attribute to highlight it entirely as:

2.Press CTRL+X to cut it to the clipboard.

3.Place the cursor before the <attribute name="name"> and then press 8 to make a new line.

4.Press CTRL+V to paste the color field back.

5.The code now looks like on the below example: the color field is above the name field.

  <objectUIs>

    <!--*** Workstates ****-->

    <objectUI name="editWorkstate" useAttributesOrder="true">

      <default mode="Hidden"/>

      <attribute name="color">

        <ui mode="Normal">

          <template kind="Color" xmlns="http://www.teradp.com/schemas/GN4/1/XmlSchemaExt.xsd"/>

        </ui>

      </attribute>

      <attribute name="name">

        <ui mode="Normal"/>

      </attribute>

      <attribute name="description">

        <ui mode="Normal">
        ....

6.Save changes and import them in database as explained in TASK: Save changes and import them in database.

7.Close and run again EdAdmin4 and reopen the Edit workstate dialog box to review the changes.