Button properties - General tab
Button type
Buttons can be displayed in the browser as a button, text link or image.
Button
The button will be displayed as a button in the browser.
Text
The button will be displayed as a text link in the browser.
Image
An image of your choice will be used as a button in the browser. When you select this option, the "Text" entry on the left will change to "Image".
Button - Text
Here, the "Button" option was selected as the button type in the first step. If you then select "Text" on the left, you can then define the text for the button in this dialog.
Static text
A static text can be defined with this option.
Title
Enter the static text here.

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Adjust height / width on button text
Here, the size of the button will automatically adjust to the size of the text.
Title from data field
The dialog's appearance will change when you select this option. In the application structure shown beneath this option, you can select a data field whose value should be used as the title of the button.
Show text if access permissions are insufficient
If this setting is activated and the user does not have the corresponding page or data group permissions, a notification will appear to inform them of this.
Show "empty" when value does not exist
With this setting, the word "empty" will be shown if there is no value.
Text - Text
Here, the "Text" option was selected as the button type in the first step. If you then select "Text" on the left, you can then define the text for the text link in this dialog. The settings correspond to those of the button option. The options "Adjust width / height to text" are not available as the text link does not have a surrounding button.
Wordwrap
The button type "Text" has this additional option.
Image - Image
An image can be selected here for the "Image" button type. When the user clicks on the image in the browser, the button action is triggered.
Static image
With this option, a static image with or without an option for MouseOver can be used.
Edit
Opens a dialog for selecting the image.
Delete
Removes the image.
With the arrow buttons the selected image in "Image /Image on MouseOver" can be copied to the other field.
Edit alternative text
Opens a dialog where the text, which should be displayed as an alternative for the image on devices that cannot display images, can be entered.
If you click on "OK" here, the button will be created. The size of an image will then be adjusted to the size of the button on the workspace. With the "Set original size" from the context menu, you can show the image in its original size on the workspace.
Image from data field
With this option images which are saved in a file data field will be used. Select the data field in the image underneath the setting "Default image".
- Default image
The image selected here is shown when the linked data field does not deliver a value.
- Show text if access permissions are insufficient
If this setting is activated and the user does not have the corresponding page or data group permissions, a notification will appear to inform them of this.
- Rotate images
Images from digital cameras always have the same aspect ratio. If a photo is taken upright, the subject will later be shown in a horizontal position in the image. In general, cameras have a position sensor. Instead of rotating the image correspondingly, they will write the positioning information to the image. With this setting, the positioning information will be evaluated by Intrexx and the image will then be rotated as necessary.
- Maximum size: Width / Height
The image size is limited to the pixel value entered here.
- Crop image
Allows the width and height of the image to be adjusted to the aspect ratio of the button.
- Enlarge smaller images
Smaller images will be enlarged up to the stated maximum size.
- Enlarge smaller images
- Optimize file size for thumbnails (reduce)
Reduces the file size for the sake of increasing the application page's loading time.
- Crop image
- Adjust control size to maximum size
If the size of the button is changed on the workspace, the current width and height are automatically written in the general properties. If this setting is not active, these values and the size of the control on the workspace will not be synchronized.
Options
Conditional display
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Target page animation in mobile browsers
Allows you to determine how the button will function for touch screens. Select the direction of movement, "From right" or "From left".
This setting is only available if the current page has been transformed for mobile devices.
Export
On the Options tab for
you have the ability to export the data records contained within them by clicking on a button in the table's footer. If the user clicks on the button in the browser, a dialog will open where the export formats can be selected.
Table
Here, all view tables and free layout tables can be selected that are located on the current page and show data from the same data group. Upon export, the data records for the selected table will be exported. For the research element, only the results table of the research can be selected; the selection of other tables on the page is not possible here.
Export column
You can see the possible export methods in this column:
List, separated by semicolon
List, separated by comma
List, separated by tab
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Default column
In this column, you can define which export option should be preselected in the browser popup.
Add template
The context menu items with the additional export formats "List, separated by separator" and "User-defined template" can be selected.
Edit current template
Opens the dialog for editing the template.
Remove template
The currently selected template is removed from the list.
Move template up / down
Modify the order of the templates.
Show title
Here, you can decide whether the titles of the fields should be added to the export file as the first row.
- Never
The titles will not be exported.
- Never as default
In the export popup, the user has the option of activating the export of the titles.
- Always
The titles will be included in the export file.
- Always as default
The setting "Add field titles as first line" is already activated in the browser.
Remove HTML
HTML formatting will be removed from the text. The options "Never", "Never as default", "Always", and "Always as default" are also available here.
Only export currently displayed data
Presets whether all data records or only the data records shown in the table will be exported. The options "Never", "Never as default", "Always", and "Always as default" are also available here.
File name without extension, e.g. export, addresses, ...
A name can be predefined for the export file. Do not write a file extension here, as this will be added automatically to the file based on the export format.