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Controlling field and other formatting in Heritage Coaches

Learn how to add field formatting capability to Input Text and Output Text controls and align button controls.

When building Heritage Coaches, you can add field formatting capability to Input Text and Output Text controls. The pre-defined field formatting available with Heritage Coaches includes standards such as US social security number, currency in dollars and Euros, and other standards.

You can also use customized formats and apply formats to variables and localization resources that are bound to Heritage Coach controls. To learn more, see the following:

• Use pre-defined formats in Heritage Coach Controls
  Choose from the available predefined character formats for your Heritage Coach controls.
• Use characters to apply custom numeric formatting
  Learn how to apply numeric formatting to a control for integers and decimals.
• Adding custom format types
  

  You can modify the predefined character formats for text controls or create additional formats.

• Use formatting with variables
  Learn how to apply formatting to a Heritage Coach control that is bound to a variable.
• Use formatting with language localization resources
  

  You can apply formatting to a Heritage Coach control that is bound to a localization resource as described in this procedure.

• Aligning buttons
  

  You can specify the alignment of buttons in a Button Group control as described in this procedure.

• Aligning check boxes and radio buttons
  

  You can specify the horizontal and vertical alignment of check boxes and radio buttons, as described in this procedure.

Configure Heritage Coach controls

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Making an input control a required field