How to Add a Check Box Control to a Form in the Authoring Tool

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Applies To: System Center Service Manager 2010

A Check Box control presents an option on the form, and lets the user choose that option. You can modify the properties of the Check Box control to customize characteristics such as the label that is displayed on the check box. Use the following procedure to add a Check Box control to a form.

To add a Check Box control to a form

  1. Ensure that the Form Customization Toolbox pane is open and that the form that you want to customize is open in the authoring pane.

  2. Drag the Check Box icon from the Form Customization Toolbox pane to the form. Click the Check Box control on the form.

  3. In the Details pane, select the Content property and set its value to text that will be displayed on the check box.

  4. In the Details pane, select the Binding Path property, and then click the ellipsis (…) icon. In the Binding Path dialog box, expand the classes, and then select a Boolean property for the control to bind to. Note that the Content property is automatically set to the display name of the property that the control is bound to.

  5. Click any other property such as Font Family in the Details pane to customize properties of the Check Box control.

  6. Click File, and then click Save All to save the custom form to a management pack.

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