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Typical Workflow

The most natural way to customize an application's property keys and widgets is to examine and modify one window at a time, as outlined by the steps below:

With the Assistant open, click the first tab in the Query Window.
Examine the search properties for the current entity. Remove any fields necessary, add others, and then order the property keys as you want them to appear in the Query Window.
Choose list in the Assistant's Task pull-down list, and modify the list property keys. Since the Query Window displays list properties as well as query properties, you can see what changes you need to make.
Click the next tab in the Query Window. The Assistant automatically updates to track your movements in the application. This saves you setting the Entity pull-down list in the Assistant.
Repeat steps 2 through 4, until you've set the query and list property keys for all the main entities.
Click the first tab in the Query Window.
Click New to open a form window for the current entity. Make necessary changes to the entity's form property keys.
Make any necessary changes to property keys of any other entity that appears in the current entity's form window. To do so,
choose list or identify in the Assistant's Task pull-down list, and set the Entity pull-down list to the other entity.
Click the next tab in the Query Window.
Repeat steps 7 and 9.

The following sections demonstrate this approach. Before continuing, open the Assistant if it isn't open already, and select the Properties tab.

Typical Workflow

Examining the Panes of the Query Window

Examining Form Windows