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  About the Inspection Preferences option

Use the Inspection Prefs menu on the Designer Studio developer toolbar to:

Identifying these rules and other elements can be valuable as you update harness, section, flow action and HTML rules to evolve the user interface of your application.

To turn on rules inspection

Open the Inspection Prefs menu to toggle the rule inspection tools. When a tool is set, a check mark appears before the item. The tools include the following:

Working while rules inspection is on

Rule inspection settings affect all user forms presented after you turn on the settings.

To see the enhanced display for a form that's already displayed:

  1. Right-click anywhere in the form.
  2. Click the Refresh icon (Refresh or refresh) on your portal. (If this icon isn't visible, save your work and choose Refresh from the right-click context menu presented by your browser.)

Understanding the D and A icons

Rules inspection settings affect all forms presented after you turn on the settings. The enhanced display contains these icons:

Interacting with the D and A results

You can use user forms while rules inspection is enabled. In addition, you can identify the rules that make up a user form:

To turn off rules inspection

Using this facility slows your session; enable it only when needed.

To turn off rules inspection, select each menu item again to remove the check marks.

Notes

Related topics dependency network, fragment, harness form, internal rule, language-specific RuleSet, locale, section
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