Source HTML — Text boxes

Syntax

Usually, the name of your text box references a property. When a user enters a value into the text box and submits the form, the value entered by the user becomes the value of the property (the name of the text box).

VANDJ 1/21/03 Use this syntax to define a text box containing the value of the property named myProperty.

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="myProperty">

If this INPUT tag is defined in an HTML Property rule, omit the NAME attribute. The system supplies the NAME attribute from the property rule that referenced the HTML Property rule.

The Param keyword

In unusual circumstances, you may want the value in a text box to become a parameter to an activity. In such cases, use the Param keyword before the property name.

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Param.myParameter">

To display a default value as a parameter from a parameter page in the text box, add a VALUE attribute and use the Reference directive to reference it.

<INPUT TYPE="text"    NAME="Param.FirstParameter"    VALUE="{Param.SecondParameter}
>

This value causes the system to display one parameter and update another parameter, on different internal pages:

• The VALUE attribute above causes the default text in the text box to contain at runtime the value of FirstParameter on the parameter page.
• The NAME attribute specifies that the value of this text box — as contained in the form when submitted — becomes the value of SecondParameter on a new parameter page, created when Process Commander receives the form input.

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