Specific properties of List box footers

List boxes can contain non-enterable "footers" displaying additional information. For data shown in table form, footers are usually used to display calculations such as totals or averages.

Preliminary note: To be able to access footer properties for a list box, you must check the Display Footers option in the Property list of the list box (see List box specific properties).

If footers are displayed, you can click to select one when the list box object is selected in the Form editor:

For each List box column footer, you can set standard text properties: in this case, these properties take priority over those of the column or of the list box.

You can also access specific properties which are described in this section.

This theme includes properties for defining footers.

• Object Name and Variable Name: The footer area is a specific object with its own object name (that must be unique in the page) and an associated variable. By default, the variable name is empty and 4D uses dynamic variables.
• Variable Type: This menu sets the type of variable and updates the options of the Property List. Note that if you use a non-dynamic variable (when you name the variable), you must use the language for typing  the variable. 
• Variable Calculation: This option sets the type of calculation to be done in the footer area. There are several types of calculations available as well as the Custom option:
  
  • Minimum, Maximum, Sum, Count, Average, Standard deviation(*), Variance(*) and Sum squares(*). These calculations are described in the “Automatic calculations” section below. When a calculation is selected, it is applied automatically to all the values found in the list box column. Note that the calculation does not take the shown/hidden state of list box rows into account. If you want to restrict a calculation to only visible rows, you must use a custom calculation.
    When an automatic calculation has been assigned to a footer areas, a "standard action" shield is then associated with it:
    
  • Custom: When you select this option, no automatic calculations are performed by 4D and you must assign the value of the variable in this area by programming.

You can associate various automatic calculations with a footer area. The following table shows which calculations can be used according to the type of data found in each column and indicates the type automatically affected by 4D to the footer variable (if it is not typed by the code):

(*) Only for array type list boxes.

Note: You cannot associate automatic calculations with column footers based on formulas. In this case, you must perform custom calculations.

Each footer area can have its own Help messages.