Harness, Section,
and Flow Action forms
Fields — Adding a Select 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 in a Select box.
Don't confuse this Select control — which supports the
run-time presentation of a fixed list of choices, such as produced in the Table Type area of a property rule —
with the Dynamic Select control, where the choices are
determined at runtime by running an activity. See Harness, Section, and Flow
Action forms — Adding a Dynamic Select control.
1. Drag and drop the Select
control
Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Basic control group
(
) and select the Select
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
(
)to
display the Cell Properties panel.
2. Complete the Cell Properties panel
— Top fields
Click the magnifying glass icon () to open
the Cell Properties panel. Complete the top fields that appear.
If the panel is
pinned (
), the wireframe presentation on
the rule form changes immediately to reflect of your inputs.
If the panel is not pinned (
), click Apply to apply your inputs.
Field |
Description |
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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. |
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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 Select box
Use these Windows operations
to speed development:
Select or type a property reference that
identifies a single text value. (If you are only prototyping a
form and the property you want to reference is not yet
defined, use the template property .pyTemplateSelect.)
)
)to supply parameter values for this HTML property rule:
SHIFT key, select the cell, drag and
drop it in another cell, in the same one layout or another
layout.