Creating a property page

You create a property page to enter and display properties defined in an interface extension for existing objects.

Follow these steps to create a property page:

1. In the Visual Basic Project Explorer, double-click the name of the interface extension designer in which you want to create the page. The Interface Extension design page appears.
2. Click the Property Pages tab. The Property Pages tab appears as shown in the following figure.

For extensions that define multiple property pages, the order of the pages as displayed from left to right in the Meridian Enterprise clients can be set using the Move up  and Move down  toolbuttons.

There can be multiple extensions that define property pages. Arranging the property page order between extensions can be done by ordering the extensions in the Configurator.

3. Click the Add form  toolbutton. A copy of the AM-Meridian PropertyPage form template is added to the project, the empty form is displayed in the object pane, and the form’s properties are displayed in the Properties pane as shown in the following figure.

4. If you have defined a custom property set in the same interface extension designer, you can click the Create controls on the form  toolbutton on the Property Pages tab to select properties to add to the form. The interface extension designer will insert a label control and a textbox control into the form for each property selected. These controls will use automatic data binding to display and store the property’s value at runtime in the Meridian Enterprise vault. This step is not necessary, but it is an easy way to quickly add data-bound controls to the form.
5. Add the controls of your choice to the form just as you would in a typical Visual Basic project.
6. Click the View Code  toolbutton or double-click a control to view and extend the form’s event procedures.

About the Property Set tab

Creating a Wizard page

About manual vs. automatic data binding

Required property page code