Pushbuttons with no fixed position in the work area of a screen initiate functions which refer to individual fields, groups of fields, tables or lists an/or parts of them. For example, you can call detailed information on a field by pressing a pushbutton.

Pushbuttons may show text alone, text and icon, or solely an icon.

Icons need less room than icons. Therefore, use only pushbuttons with icons alone for the functions describes below. If the user positions the mouse cursor on a pushbutton, the system will - after a short delay - show its meaning in a small Quickinfo popup. Add text to icons only as an exception.

Define the width of pushbuttons as follows:

• Icon alone: Set the width of the pushbutton to a value that the icon fits exactly on the pushbutton (as the Screen Painter suggests).
• Icon and text: The system places the icon always to the left of the text. Set the the width of the pushbutton in a way that its alignment and size fit to that of neighbouring pushbuttons and that there is sufficient room left for translation.

The platform-specific appearance is used for pushbuttons.

A mouse-click initiates the function assigned to a pushbutton.