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Workflow Toolbar Properties

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The Microsoft® Office Developer Workflow Toolbar control contains a number of properties that can be used to customize the toolbar. You can access these properties by selecting the control in Design view of a data access page, and then opening the View menu and clicking Properties.

Name Description
BackColor Returns or sets the background color for the toolbar.
BorderHighlightColor Returns or sets the color used to draw highlights on the control and button borders.
BorderShadowColor Returns or sets the color used to draw shadows on the control and button borders.
BorderVisible Returns or sets a Boolean value that controls whether the toolbar displays a raised border.
DataSource Returns the control's data source.
Event Returns an object with properties about the current ClickAction event. The following read-only properties are available on the Event object:

Action — The action ID from the WorkflowActions table.
Caption — The action name from the WorkflowActions table.
Type — The action type: 1 = create, 2 = delete, 3 = update, and 4 = transition.
State — The current value of the row's workflow state column.
NextState — The new value of the row's workflow state column.
FontName Returns or sets the font name for the toolbar.
FontSize Returns or sets the font size for the toolbar in points.
FontWeight Returns or sets the font weight for the toolbar. To make the font bold, set the value to 700. To make the font normal, set the value to 400.
ForeColor Returns or sets the foreground color for the toolbar.
LockFieldsBeforeEdit Returns or sets a Boolean value that controls whether all HTML elements and Microsoft® ActiveX® controls in the section will be disabled (except for text-edit elements which are read-only) until the user chooses an action.
Enabled Returns or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the control responds to user actions.
HideUnavailable Returns or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether unavailable events are hidden rather than displayed as unavailable. This property might be useful if your workflow process defines a large number of events.
RecordSource Identifies the name of the data access page section to which the toolbar binds.
ShowActionButtons Returns or sets a Boolean value that controls whether the toolbar control generates a set of buttons for the available workflow events.
ShowPictures Returns or sets a Boolean value that controls whether pictures are shown for each toolbar menu option.
ShowTextLabels Returns or sets a Boolean value that controls whether text labels are shown for all buttons.

See Also

Workflow Toolbar Object Model | CancelEvent Method (Workflow Toolbar) | ClickAction Event (Workflow Toolbar)