Manually Associating a Data Source Property to a Control 

Use

You use this procedure to associate a data source property to a control that you added to the tile from the Toolbox manually.

When you drag and drop the property of a data source on to a tile, the corresponding control is created. This control is associated automatically with the data source property. For more information, see Adding Controls to the Tile

If you add a text-input control to the tile, the control is not associated with a data source property. To enable the control to display and accept data at runtime, the control must be associated with a specific data source property.

Prerequisites

You have:

·        Identified the tile containing the control with which you want to associate the data source property

·        Identified the property of the data source that you want to associate with the control

·        Switched to the required change list

Procedure

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       1.      In the Solution Explorer, locate the tile containing the control for which you want to associate a data source, click the tile with the secondary mouse button, and choose View Designer.

The Tile Designer window appears.

       2.      In the Document Outline window, select the Anchors view.

       3.      Determine whether or not a business anchor exists for the data source property that you want to associate with the control.

       4.      Determine what you need to do.

If you want to …	Then …
Use an existing business anchor	...                             a.      Select the control.                             b.      In the Properties panel in the Anchor field, make sure that the data source property is the one that you want to use.                             c.      In the BO Attribute field, select the property that you want to use.
Associate a business anchor	...                             a.      In the Solution Explorer, expand the Business Library and either the Business Object or the Business Query nodes.                             b.      Locate and select the data source that you want. The Properties panel appears.                             c.      Drag the property that you want to associate with the control and drop it on the tile.                             d.      In the Tile Designer, select the default control associated with that property and press Delete.                             e.      Select the original control, that you want to associate with the property. The Properties panel displays.                               f.      In the Anchors field, select the anchor associated with the data source property that you want to use.                             g.      In the BO Attribute field, select the property that you want to use.

 

       5.      Save the tile.