You work with edit styles in the Database painter, Form painter, and Report painter.
In the Database painter, you can:
Create, modify, and delete named edit styles
The edit styles are stored in the extended attribute system tables. Once you define an edit style, it can be used by any column of the appropriate datatype in the database.
Assign edit styles to columns
These styles are used by default when you place the column in a report in the Report painter or in a form in the Form painter.
In the Form and Report painters, you can:
Accept the default edit style assigned to a column in the Database painter
Override the default edit style with another named style stored in the extended attribute system tables
Create an ad hoc, unnamed edit style to use with one specific column
When you have placed a column in a form or report and have given it an edit style (either the default style from the assignment made in the Database painter for the column or a style assigned in the Report painter or Form painter), InfoMaker records the name and definition of the edit style in the form or report.
However, if the definition of the edit style later changes in the extended attribute system tables, the edit style for the column in a form or report will not change automatically. You can update the column by reassigning the edit style to it in the form or report.
