Harness and Section forms
About the Work Area control

Parameter

Description

Not used. Leave blank.

Select Yes to divide the area into group of tabs.

Appears if the Tabbed value is Yes. Select a maximum limit of Work Area tabs. The number can be no greater than 16.

Select:

• Fill — At runtime, the work area expands to fill the available space regardless of the content’s height.
• Size to Content — At runtime, work area expands to the entire height offered by the enclosing section.
• Fixed — Limit the runtime presentation to a fixed height in pixels; scroll bars appear at runtime as needed.

If the Tabbed parameter value is Yes, complete at least one row of the Open by Default array to label and identify the contents of each tab. Order is significant.

Enter brief text to appear as the label of this tab.

Identify the Applies To key part of a harness

Identify the Purpose key part of a harness.

Identify an icon that you want to display in the tab. Click the magnifying glass icon () to open the Image Catalog (a pop-up version of the Image Library landing page). Select the binary file you wish to use.

Select a field value or enter a constant that contains a sentence or phrase identifying to users the content of the tab.

Localization

Use SmartPrompt to select a field value rule if you plan to localize the text. Enter no more than 64 characters. A field value rule with pyActionPrompt as the second key part and this text as the final key part is needed for each locale. When practical, choose a caption already included in a language pack, to simplify later localization. See About the Localization wizard.

Select to cause automatic refresh of the runtime harness display when the user clicks the tab to make it frontmost.

Not used. Leave blank.

Not used. Leave blank.

Optional. If the Tabbed parameter value is No, you can force execution to occur in a specific requestor Thread. Enter the Thread name.

Leave blank in most cases to use the default Thread, Standard.

If the Tabbed parameter value is No, select to determine the automatic processing that is to occur when the section is initially presented:

• None — No automatic processing; the form area is initially empty.
• Display — Present a user form.
• Create New Work — Start a flow execution that creates a new work item.
• Get Next Work — Search for an appropriate assignment to present to this use next.

Parameter

Description

Identify the Applies To key part of a harness.

Identify the Purpose key part of a harness.

Select to present the runtime harness display in read-only mode, disallowing all input.

Optional. Identify a clipboard page name to support the runtime harness display.

Optional. Identify the second key part — Data Transform Name — of a data transform to provide initial values on the clipboard page. To find this rule at runtime, the system uses the Class Name value as the first key part.

Optional. You can pass parameter values to sections within the harness using a special syntax:

paramname1=paramvalue1; paramname2=paramvalue2; ...

where paramname is the parameter name and paramvalue is a literal constant within double quote characters, or a property reference of the form pagename.propname. For example:

Length="20"; Width=pyWorkPage.Width;

Parameter

Description

Identify the Applies To key part of a flow rule that creates a new work item, as a literal value or a property reference.

Identify the Flow Name key part of a flow rule that creates a new work item, as a literal value or a property reference.

Optional. You can pass parameter values to the flow rule using a special syntax:

paramname1 = paramvalue1; paramname2=paramvalue2; ...

where paramname is the parameter name and paramvalue is a literal constant within double quote characters, or a property reference of the form pagename.propname. For example:

Length="20"; Width=pyWorkPage.Width;

Parameter

Description

Optional. You can pass parameter values to the Work-getNextWorkObject activity (or your activity built to perform such processing) using a special syntax:

paramname1=paramvalue1; paramname2=paramvalue2; ....

where paramname is the parameter name and paramvalue is a literal constant within single quote characters, or a property reference of the form pagename.propname. For example:

Length="20"; Width="200";