Make Field Required & Hide Table Functionality

As of the July 6th, 2010 update, m-Painter has been enhanced to include two new features: Make Field Required & Hide Table.

Prior to this update, if a developer wished to include this functionality, they would be forced to enter Source mode. However, now these helpful features are available directly through the WYSISWYG m-Painter editor.

Make Field Required

This feature applies to any template that contains an input field (Excluding the Grid Maintenance template). In m-Painter, right click on the field you wish to require and select “Make Field Required”. Click OK. You can now modify the default error message on screen through m-Painter. If an end-user leaves this field blank, the error message you have customized will be displayed. Furthermore, their form will not submit and they will be required to enter a value before proceeding.

Hide Table

Developers can now hide a table directly through the WYSIWYG m-Painter. This functionality is most common when creating Graphs/Maps and you wish to display the graphical data, but not the data table. To implement, right click on any table’s border and select “Hide Table”. While you can still see the table, it will be hidden from your end-user at runtime. To show the table, simply click back on the table border and select “Show Table”.