Groups are the secondary groupings of fields in the User Interface Editor. A group can contain several elements and is an important visual divider of fields in the user interface. In Room Data and Item Data they appear with blue headers and can have boarders that visually groups the elements together.
Group labels and boarder will not be shown in Occurrence data or Systems Data
Create new group
Select the tab where the new group should be added to.
Either select "New Group" in the top menu or right click and select “New Group”
Enter properties. See more below
Properties
The following properties are linked to groups:
Property | Explanation |
ID | Database unique Group ID |
Label | The name to be displayed in the user interface and in the reports |
Row position | Horizontal (row) position in relation to the other groups |
Column position | Vertical (column) position in relation to the other groups. The groups are drawn by column. In other words, all the groups in column 1 are shown before groups in column 2. |
Border | Displays a frame which surrounds the underlying elements with the Group Label as a blue heading. |
Report layout | The appearance the group is to have in PDF reports, see. below |
Report layout
The appearance of the PDF report is managed via the Report Layout option. The following options can be selected:
Type | Explanation |
group | Designed to show all fields in an element in the same row. Fields will be displayed continuously after each other for space efficiency. |
flow-group | Same as group |
value-spec | Same as group |
description-group | Used by groups which comprise one large multi-line text field. The name of the group will be displayed in bold above the text in the fields. |
two-column | The elements are in two columns. |
three-column | The elements are in three columns. Typical for elements where there is only one field. |
four-column | The elements are in four columns. Typical for elements where there is only one field. |
five-column | The elements are in five columns. Typical for elements where there is only one field. |
value-spec-two-column | Same as value-spec but in two columns. |
Copy group
When coping a group all levels below will also be copied.
Select group to copy
Right-click
Select “Copy” to copy once or select “Create multiple Copies” to create more copies at once.
Move groups
Groups can only be moved to another tab, not internally within the same tab. To change order of groups within a tab, use the properties “Row position” and “Column position”.
Select the group and drag it to another tab. Four small red dots will indicate where you are moving the group.
Delete groups
Select one or more groups and delete using the “Delete” option in the top menu or Right click → Delete.