The Info text control is used to display text that depends on the values of other controls on the page. Its primary purpose is to explain the consequences of the user's choices and provide supplemental information dynamically, guiding the user based on their interactions with other page elements.
Unlike all other controls, the Info text control will calculate its default value even when the NewEdit page opens in edit mode, and it will never pass its value to the InsertUpdate procedure when the page is saved.
If you need to display information about a chosen value in a single control, do note that both Dropdown and Textbox with autosearch already have built-in support for info text to explain their chosen value.
If you need to display errors or warnings caused by a chosen value, consider using field validation instead.
Uneditable text control:
Info text control:
Hidden control:
Retrieves the default value for the control.
This call is only made if there is a field validation set for the field info and the field has any content.
Performs field validation when the user leaves the field or one of its dependencies is changed, initial values set by default value and initial values in edit-mode are not validated.
When saving the validation runs server side if the field value has changed. A field value is considered changed if in new mode the value is anything other than NULL
. In edit mode it is considered changed if it has a value that was not returned by the GetEditFields procedure.