Add a pop-up to a form

Applies to User Roles:

System Administrator

To add a pop-up to a form:

  1. Click Tailoring > Forms Designer in the System Navigator, or type fd on the Service Manager command line and then press Enter.
  2. Type a form name and click Search.

    Service Manager opens a list of forms. Click the form you want to update to open it.

  3. Click Design to open design mode.
  4. Add a comfill widget, or select an existing comfill.

    The properties for the comfill appear in the properties view.

  5. Specify the name of the form you want to display when the user hovers over the comfill in the Pop-up Subform Format field.
  6. Specify source field name to associate with the comfill in the pop-up Subform Input field.

    Note: This field should exist on the link record.

  7. Click the Pop-up Subform Enabled box.
  8. Click Web Preview to see what the form will look like in the Web client.
  9. Click OK to see what the form will look like in the Windows client.
  10. Click OK to save your changes.
  11. Open the form using Database Manager to test your changes:
    1. Click Tailoring > Database Manager
    2. Click Search.

      Service Manager opens a list of forms.

    3. Click the form you just modified to open it.

When the user hovers over the comfill control that you placed on the form, if the virtual join returns a single record, Service Manager will display it in a pop-up subform.

Related concepts

Form creation
Forms Designer
Using pop-ups
Using the drawing canvas
Using the HTML Editor

Related tasks

Access Forms Designer
Create a form using the Form Wizard
Update a form
Add a subform to a form

Related references

Forms Designer controls and tools
Comfill control
Subform control