Defining Text Fields

It is possible to define additional free text fields to appear on the [General] tab of both the Transport Form and Business Task.

Text fields are configured by ActiveControl Administrators on the [Fields] tab of the ActiveControl Windows GUI configuration screen.

When configuring a text field, you define the name of the text field, whether it is for tasks or Transport Forms, and its maintenance status. The name of the text field is the text that is displayed beside the new field on the Transport Form. The maintenance status defines whether the field contents are optional or required when creating the Transport Form. It is also possible to configure the maintenance status to be hidden in the case that the field is no longer wanted on the Transport Form.

If the maintenance status of the field is set to hidden, then any Transport Forms that were previously created that still contain text for that field, still display this information. If the Transport Form is then changed, and the contents of the field deleted, then the documentation field is no longer displayed.

!Text Fields have been largely deprecated by the newer and more functionally custom field functionality within ActiveControl. Basis Technologies would recommend to use custom fields instead of text fields, as the latter might be removed from future versions of ActiveControl.