The Control Panel Work Area displays the control panel you are currently editing and allows you to select individual control panel items to modify and delete them.

The selected control is highlighted in the work area. To select a specific control panel object in the work area, simply click on it using the left mouse button. To remove the selection and highlight, so you can see the control panel as it will appear in the dashboard, press the preview button.

The Object Tab provides access to commands to modify the appearance and behaviour of the selected control in the control panel.

The object tab is only available when a control is selected in the work area. To open the object tab, make sure a control is selected in the work area, then click on it in the window header.

Edit Label - Opens the label window to allow you to modify the label or title text of the selected control.

Drop Down Contents - Opens the drop down contents window to allow you to specify how the drop down list in the selected control is populated.

Slider Scale - Opens the slider properties window to allow you to specify how the scale for the slider is calculated

Change Image - Allows you to browse to an alternative image

When an Image Object is selected a dropdown list of image alignment is enabled

The Drop Down Contents window allows you to specify the contents of a drop down list in a control panel.

To open the drop down contents window, select a control in the control panel window, select the object tab then press the drop down contents button. Alternatively you can double click on a drop down list in the control panel window.

There are two ways you can populate the drop down list;

To populate the drop down list using data returned from a query, follow the steps below;

Select the option to populate the drop down list from a query, then select the query data set you want the values to be drawn from.

If you want to filter the query data set (perhaps to filter the contents based on another filter parameter), select the filter button to open the Define Filter Condition window to allow you to define the filter.

Select the column you want to use to build a list of values to be displayed in the drop down list.

If the column is a date field, select which time interval you want to be used to build the display values.

You may wish to use a value from column other than the display column in your filter condition.

To define a different column as the filter parameter value, select the use a different column check box and select the column you want to use.

Finally, select whether you want the values sorted (by the display value, rather than shown in the original order), whether you want to ignore duplicate items, and whether you want to include an option for all (if all is selected any filter condition based on this filter parameter will be ignored).

(NB. if you have opted to use different columns for the display and value columns, two items are only considered duplicate if both columns have the same value).