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@Ted, Thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion works great and solves the overlap and loss of image issues.  There's still a little hiccup in that the watermark doesn't display in design mode, so I still use my original image there as well, as it's needed to lineup the fields. Thanks again fo the ...

I'm using the report designer to autofill some forms by using an image of the blank form as a picture object, which fills the whole page, and then placing the fields I want autofilled in the appropriate postions on the image. Although this generally seems to work ok, I do get the warning  message about overlapping controls not exporting ...

I have a textbox which has actions that execute on focus.  They worked fine until I increased the number of input lines beyond 1, after which they don't do anything.  Is this a design limitation or am I doing something wrong? thanks, Rolf

Chad,   You're quite right; I was making changes to a screen that was also open at the same time on my computer. I was under the impression any changes would not take effect on  a screen until it was published, much like one does when publishing a web page for instance. I never really thought about it much before, but I guess I ...

I have recently noticed that while in designer mode the response can sometimes be extremely slow when making even minor changes to fields. I think some of this may be due to the fact that the designer programme  now appears to be doing publishing when changes are made to actions, but before one actually 'publishes' the changes.  ...

Valbon, I am executing a set of actions upon a text change in a dropdown field called CustomerBank. In that action set there is a conditional action dependent upon the value of the dropdown prior to the text change. That value is still stored in the table, whereas reading the dropdown field gives the new changed value. When I tried to retrieve ...

smohyee, I've used numerous check boxes as part of a customer application process that employees fill in. With a default of unchecked (or no) I never knew whether the employees had actually considered that field or not, and have now switched to a dropdown with Yes, No, or blank choices(default is blank).  This provides assurance that ...

smohyee, You were absolutely correct.  Such an easy thing to fix; I don't know how I missed it. thanks for your suggestion.   Rolf

I am using the Retrieve Value from Table action  to get the value of a dropdown field which I subsequently use in a conditional action. I seem to remember that in the past retrieving a dropdown field would automatically open a new line to allow a choice between the RegID value or the text value. I wanted to use the text value, but have found ...

I'm having a very frustrating time with the following situation.   I have substantially customized both the Lead and Customer screens, and when I go to the Contacts grid and select the New Activity link,  the New Activity window opens.  Upon closing the window, I get the following error message: Action ...