Harness, Section,
and Flow Action forms
Adding a Check Box
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A cell in a layout can present the value of a property, as display-only or as an input field. Follow these instructions to control the presentation of a property value as a check box.
For a harness rule, the property generally must be on the primary page of the rule — the page corresponding to the Applies To key part of the rule. However, a section within the harness rule may have a different Applies To class, and that section can include properties from its own class.
1. Drag and drop the Check Box
control
Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Basic control group
(
) and select the Check Box
control (
). Drag the control to
the cell or header that is to contain the property value.
When the pointer changes shape to indicate that a single cell
is selected, release the mouse button to drop the
control.
If the cell is not empty, the dropped control replaces the
current contents of the cell. Click the magnifying glass icon
(
)to
display the Cell Properties panel.
2. Complete the Cell Properties panel
— Top Fields
Complete the top fields of the Cell Properties panel.
Your updates to this panel can update the rule form immediately or upon clicking Apply, depending on the Property Panel settings in your Edit preferences. See Setting preferences. If the panel is pinned(
), the
wireframe on the rule form changes immediately to reflect
your inputs. If the panel is not pinned(
), click Apply to apply your inputs.
Field |
Description |
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(Appears only when this field is in a section included within the current open rule.) Click to open the section that immediately contains the field. |
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| Property |
Alternatively, you can drag a property name from the
lists of properties visible in the Application
Explorer. Typically, this works for Click the pencil icon ( You can reference properties on any page identified on the Pages & Classes tab, using the normal notation pagename.propertyname for pages other than the page corresponding to the Applies To class of the rule. If this field is in a cell of a section that includes parameter declarations on the Parameters tab, you can enter the notation param.NAME here, to use a parameter value for the field, where NAME identifies a string parameter. Make sure that the NAME parameter is declared on the Parameters tab, and that your application provides a non-blank value for the parameter value in all possible situations where the section appears. See Section rules — Completing the Parameter tab. |
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| Display As |
Click the magnifying glass icon (
Click OK to save parameter values. If this check box is within a section that itself has parameters (defined on the Parameters tab of the Section form), you can reference a section parameter to supply an HTML Property parameter value, with the normal notation PARAM.Name. |
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| Behavior |
Optional. Leave blank if no dynamic form actions to other parts of the form are to occur based on user updates or values for this field. To establish a dynamic form action, click the
magnifying glass icon ( Click the help icon ( Client event support is not available for harness, section, or flow action rules that use directives. |
3. Complete the Cell properties panel
— General tab
4. Complete the Cell properties panel
— Advanced tab
Copying, deleting, duplicating, or
moving a Check Box
Use these Windows operations
to speed development:
Select or type a property reference that
identifies a single text value and has a Property Type of 
)to supply parameter values for this HTML property rule. All parameters are optional. 
SHIFT key, select the cell, drag and drop
it in another cell, in the same one layout or another
layout.