In the course of editing record fields it is possible to use the commands of context editing menu. This menu is called by right-clicking if one of the record fields is selected.
Commands Cut/Copy/Paste perform the standard set of operations using Windows clipboard for moving and copying the field contents or its selected part.
The command Undo causes cancellation of changes in field value. It is possible to undo some action if the user has not left the present field yet.
The command Delete replaces the current field value by an empty value.
The command Select all selects all the field contents to be used in commands Copy or Cut later.
When editing fields of some types special commands are added to the context menu. For a field type “Date” the command Today is provided, for fields “Time” and “Timestamp” – the command Now. These commands enter the current value of system date and time into the field.
The commands Today and Now can also be used for getting a sample of date and time entered in correct format.
Usage of the context menu when editing fields of the type “Object” is described in subsection “Editing fields of object type”.
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