Designing the Read Page
Book club members use the read page of the LitCrit form to read critiques that have been posted to the LitCrit public folder. The form contains all controls listed in the "Read page control" columns of the tables in Binding Controls to Fields. Controls are read-only and the read page uses different controls than the compose page to display content of custom fields.
The LitCrit compose page was created first, and then the read page was created by changing the compose page in the following ways:
- Add the name of the reviewer and the date of the critique. This information is automatically captured in the From and Sent fields (which exist but are not visible on the LitCrit compose page) when the LitCrit form is posted. Binding the txtReviewer and txtCritiqueDate fields on the read page to the compose form's From and Sent fields allows the read page to display this information.
- Remove labels. The read form has no labels for the Title and Author text boxes and the critique Title and critique Text text boxes.
- Remove drop-down list boxes. The drop-down list boxes that the compose page uses to show available ratings become text boxes that display the selected ratings on the read page.
The following illustration shows the LitCrit form's read page:
