Configure the Appearance Of a Panel Element

The appearance of a panel element determines its text font, attributes, and colors.

To configure the appearance of a panel element:

  1. In Configurator, expand Pages in the configuration tree to display the existing pages.

  2. Select the page containing the panel that you want to edit.

  3. Click Edit.

  4. On the General page, select the panel that contains the panel element that you want to edit and click the Edit Panel button.

    The panel's Properties dialog box appears.

  5. Click the Properties tab.

    The layout of the current panel elements appears.

  6. Select the panel element that you want to edit in the list.

  7. Click Edit.

    The panel element's Properties dialog box appears.

  8. On the Appearance tab, click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

  9. Click OK.

Panel element appearance options
Option Description

Override field font settings

Select this option to override the effective font setting for this element. This setting overrides the Edit box font setting of either the Page Styles options of the Environment or the Styles options of the property page if the page's Override global style settings option is enabled.

Override property background color

Select this option to override the effective background color setting for this element. This setting overrides the Edit box background color setting of either the Page Styles options of the Environment or the Styles options of the property page if the page's Override global style settings option is enabled.

Override label font settings

Select this option to override the effective label font setting for this element. This setting overrides the Control labels font setting of either the Page Styles options of the Environment or the Styles options of the property page if the page's Override global style settings option is enabled.

Do not display user input (if applicable)

Select this option to mask user input, such as for entry of a password.

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