You must edit the presentation.xml files
to move a control or a group of controls from one application to another.
Procedure
- Open the source application in the Application Designer
and click Export Application Definition. The XML definition opens in the browser.
- Save the XML definition to a file.
- Open the target application and perform the same steps
to export the XML definition and save it to a file.
- Open the XML file for the source application in a text
editor.
- Locate the control ID or the section control ID that you
want to move. You can use the unique control ID that is
listed in the Control Properties window to search
for the control in the XML file.
- Select the relevant code and copy it to the clipboard.
- Open the XML file for the target application in a text
editor.
- Navigate to where you want to insert the control and Paste
the code that is stored on the clipboard.
- Save both XML files.
- Open the target application n the Application Designer
and click Import Application Definition.
- Specify the target application XML file that you modified,
and click OK.
Results
When you copy a multipart text box control to a different
application, the control must link to an attribute that exists in
the main object table for both applications. If the attribute relationship
does not exist, the multipart text box control in the target application
does not contain any property values.