In this section, you will finish creating your data list by choosing the data fields to display and adjusting its appearance. This is a simple example, so you will not use all available data list options. To learn the many things you can do with a data list, see Advanced Data List Options.
Continuing from the previous section, the Data Publishing dialog should still be on your screen.
1. In the Data List Name field, type: Directory. Your data list's name appears on the Properties palette. Data list names are particularly useful when you place more than one data list on the same page.
2. In the Data List Fields list box, click the check boxes for LastName, FirstName, Title, and Extension, and then click OK. The data list appears where you drew the rectangle. Only the fields you checkedLastName, FirstName, Title,and Extension-appear in the data list. It includes only two rows, as described in Elements of Data Publishing: Data List.
3. Drag the right edge of the data list rectangle out to the right, then drag each column border to the right until the column headings in the first row are comfortably spaced. Dragging column borders does not change the outside boundary of the list, only the relative positions of the dividers.
4. Verify the settings on the Data List tab of the Properties palette.
Before continuing, you can switch to Assets view, click the Data Objects button, double-click the Employees data object, and review how NetObjects Fusion filled in the data object options using information from the table. The data object took the table's name and now has definitions for all the table's fields.
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