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Add a Customer Name Field to the Customer Information Screen

Now let's add fields to our Customer Information Screen. You can see the screen is selected because the Current Screen panel says "Edit Screen: Customer Information" and the Customer Information icon is highlighted in the Form Outline.

To add fields to the screen, you just grab a field from the Palette, and drag it on the screen where you want it to appear. Lets add a text box field for the customer name.

Whenever you add a field, the "Add Field" window pops up. The window prompts you to enter a label for the field. Let's give this field a short label that will fit on our Smartphone screen. Lets call the customers name "Name" and make it a required field by checking the "Required" checkbox. If a field is required, the user cannot move to the next screen until he fills in the field.

Canvas let's us be more descriptive of the field by clicking the "Advanced" panel. Since this is the name for a billing contact, let's type Billing Contact Name in the "Export" and "Report" labels. Whenever we generate a web report or export data, the field will have this name. Let's just type "Customer Name" as the label that appears on a printed customer receipt.

If you run Canvas apps on a Windows Mobile Smartphone or integrated barcode scanner, you can print receipts on a wide variety of portable printers via Bluetooth, USB cable or infrared communications. Since most of these printers produce 2 to 4 inch wide receipts that can fit in your wallet, we'll want a slightly shorter label here.

Click "Done" to finish adding the field.