Most container programs and development environments that are OLE-aware support a design environment for designing forms and dialogs interactively. Within this environment, a toolbar window offers a choice of control that the user can place on the form.

The SAP Table Tree control is indicated by . A typical view of the design environment is shown below.

The control’s appearance depends on the configuration of the SAP Table Tree control, just as the properties available depend on the container. Some containers add additional properties like Visible, Default, Parent or Cancel. These additional properties are described in the container’s manual.

The container also determines whether property are displayed as in Microsoft Visual Basic, or whether they are only available through property pages at the design time. Nevertheless, almost every control container supports a right mouse button menu with entries that invoke the control’s property pages. The SAP Table Tree control supports five property pages :