The Mask Editor

The Mask Editor enables you to create HELiOS masks for input and search masks for documents, articles, folders, classifications, pipe classes and own object types.

The edit functions work in the same way as the common Windows functions.

You can activate the Mask Editor

via the Admin Tools tab of the HELiOS Desktop or
by double-clicking MASKEDT2.EXE in the EXE sub-directory.

Your Windows system will prompt you to run the program as Administrator. Proceed as follows:

Select an area, e.g. Project masks.
Select one or several masks of a data record you want to edit.
Use OK to load the selected mask(s) for editing.

The selected masks will be opened. The masks consist of individual fields which can be placed arbitrarily within the mask. The active field is highlighted by a frame. Click the symbol to specify the format of the active field. The background of the mask is can be displayed in any colour. You change the colour settings via the Colour function in the menu bar.

Right-click to open the context menu with the editing functions.

Function	Description
Copy mask contents	Copies the complete contents of the mask, i.e. in order to create a new mask with similar contents.
Delete mask contents	Deletes the complete contents of the mask.
Select mask colour	Allows you to specify a mask colour.
Copy mask colour	Copies a mask colour.
Apply mask colour	Applies the background colour to the mask.
Transfer mask colour to texts	Transfers the mask colour to texts.
New data field	Use this function to insert a new data field. Data fields are linked to an attribute and are used for the input of texts. Select an attribute and activate Next .... The Properties window enables you to specify various settings concerning the data field, such as field height, field length, text length, text colour or background colour. You are also asked to enter the permitted characters for the current data field here. Specify the field length and height, the text length and, if required, a default text. The default text is always displayed when you call the mask. You can also specify valid characters. Select OK to close the window. The new field appears in the mask and can be placed arbitrarily.
New text field	Text fields are used for the description of data fields. The new field appears in the mask and can be placed arbitrarily.

If you right-click a data field and select Properties in the context menu, a dialogue with setting options for the attribute values will be displayed:

Here you can specify text length, text height, as well as an optional pre-allocation for the data field.

If you activate the Unlimited text length checkbox, the number of characters that can be entered in the field will no longer be limited.

If you activate the Line break checkbox, you can create line breaks while entering text by pressing the ENTER key.

For some data fields (e.g. HEL_DATEINAME) you can deactivate the File name editable checkbox. If you do this, the Allowed characters options will be greyed out and cannot be activated or deactivated. This will prevent an editing of the field in the HELiOS Desktop, i.e. the field will become a read-only field.