Default list control actions
Default list control actions are actions supported for all kind of list controls. Depending on the list status, several actions might be disabled or hidden, i.e. those will not appear in context menus or list tool bars. Default actions are provided for different kind of list or tree actions:
Several actions are provided in order to support manipulating instances.
- EditEntry - Edid object properties for selected entry
- InsertEntry - Insert new object instance
- AppendEntry - Append new object instance
- RemoveEntry - Remove selected object instance
- DeleteEntry - Delete selected object instance
- Associate - Associate object instance from other collection
- CopyEntry - Copy (duplicate) selected object instance
- RenameEntry - Rename selected object instance
Instance actions are usually disabled, when list items are available in read mode, only.
For manipulating collections, several collection actions are provided:
- RemoveSet - Remove all instances from collection
- DeleteSet - Delete all instances listed in the collection
- MoveUp - Move instance one position upwards
- MoveDown - Move instance one position downwards
- UpdateEntries - Update entries in the collection systematically
Collection actions are usually disabled, when the list is available in read mode, only.
Several default actions support search and filter settings. These actions may change the list selection but also the list items displayed in the list.
- FindEntry - Find entry by key value
- NewFindEntry - Find entry with new key value
- SetSelection - Set selection filter for collection
- ResetSelection - Reset previously set selection filter
- [ SetCascadingSelection - Add condition to current selection ]
- [ ResetCascadingSelection - Reset last condition added to current selection ]
Administrative actions provide support for displaying the list. Following administrative actions are supported:
- Refresh - Refresh list items
- RestoreDefaults - Restore list default settings
Subtopics
- EditEntry - Edit currently selected entry (F4)
- InsertEntry - Insert (new) entry before current position (Shift+Ctrl+I)
- AppendEntry - Append (new) entry (Shift+Ctrl+A)
- RemoveEntry - Remove entry from reference (Del)
- DeleteEntry - Delete entry from reference (Del)
- Associate - Associate entry from base collection (Ctrl+Shift+F5)
- RenameSelected - Rename all selected entries
- DeleteSet - Delete all collection instances (Ctrl+Del)
- RemoveSet - Remove all instances from collection (Ctrl+Del)
- MoveUp - Move instance upwards (Shift+Up)
- MoveDown - Move instance upwards (Shift+Down)
- UpdateEntries - Update collection instances
- FindEntry - Find next entry (F3)
- NewFindEntry - Find text entry in list or text field (Ctrl+F3)
- SetSelection - Set selection filter for collection
- ResetSelection - Reset previously set selection filter
- SetCascadingSelection - Add condition to current selection
- ResetCascadingSelection - Reset last condition added to current selection
- Refresh - Refresh list items
- RestoreDefaults - Enable list default settings