Summary
VFW072 – Create a Department Dropdown Reusable Part
Important Information
- This exercise created a very simple dropdown reusable part. The next exercise provides an example of a more functional reusable part, supporting two dropdowns.
- Build common reusable parts whenever it is clear that this functionality will be required in a number of places.
- Your reusable parts will be much more useful if you include help text for other developers.
Tips & Techniques
- Adding a HideLabel property to the reusable part, together with property routines to set Margin Left to 0, or to the default 150, would make this dropdown more useful.
What You Should Know
- How to create and design a visual reusable part.
- How to implement your own reusable part in an update command handler.