Harness and Section forms
Placing a text label in a layout cell or header

Field

Description

Type the text that forms the label. If the text is wider than the panel, click the magnifying glass icon () to access a larger window that allows you to edit the longer text.

When you plan to localize the application using this rule, so the application can support users in various languages or locales, choose the text carefully and limit text length to 64 characters. When practical, choose a caption already included in a language pack, to simplify later localization.

Optionally, if this label is within 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 label text, 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 Sections — Completing the Parameter tab.

If you need a text label that is longer than 64 characters and do not plan to localize this application, consider a paragraph rule rather than a label. See Adding paragraphs to place rich text in a cell or header.

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Optional. If building an accessible application, select here the property name that this label identifies. In other cases, you can leave this field blank.

If you leave this blank, the generated HTML from this form assumes that this label identifies the cell (if any) immediately to the right of the current cell.

If this field is not blank, the generated HTML from this form at runtime allows:

• A user to click this label to move focus to the cell containing the property
• Screen reader software (such as the JAWS for Windows®) to identify to the cell containing the property.
• The Required box on the related property to cause display of an orange asterisk next to the label.

You can't reference a field value rule here.

During design of a harness, section, or flow action form, complete this field to support simpler drag-and-drop operations. When completed, both the label and the associated field move together.

Select to cause a yellow asterisk () to appear next to the label when presented in read-write mode. By convention, this can indicate that a field with this label is required to be non-blank.

However, checking Required for a Label cell does not affect the processing or validation of user input. To mark a field as required to be non-blank, check the Required box in the field Cell panel. To cause both validation of the value and the asterisk to appear, check the Required box for both the Label and Field panels.

Check this box to align the column headers with the data in the columns.

When unchecked, a drop-down menu appears giving you the option of aligning the column headers to the left, right, or middle.

Leave cleared in most cases. Labels are always presented in read-only mode, so this setting affects only styles.

Select to cause the label to be presented with read-only styles always, or based on a when condition rule, even when the enclosing layout is in read-write mode.

If desired, in the field that displays, specify a read only condition using:

• The When Name key part of a when condition rule. Click the icon () to review or create the rule.
• A simple expression based on the comparison of a pair of constants, properties, or both, combined by Boolean operators, such as .Color="Red". You can combine the expression with a when condition rule or another expression using the && and || operators.

As a best practice, use the Condition Builder to edit this field. Click to open the tool. See Using the Condition Builder to configure dynamic UI actions.

To control the visibility of the label, select one of the following:

• Always: always visible
• Condition (expression): the region is visible under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a condition or click to open the Condition Builder. You can define a simple expression based on the comparison of a pair of constants, properties, or both, combined by Boolean operators, such as .Color="Red". You can combine the expression with a when condition rule or another expression using the && and || operators.
• Condition (when): the region is visible under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a when rule. Click to create a new when condition or review an existing when condition.

If this section is to become part of navigation in a composite portal, you can make the header visible only when a specific space is the current space. Enter an expression here similar to the following:

pyCurrentSpace=="ASpaceName"

Field

Description

Specifies the format of the label control.

You can style label controls and create additional formats in the skin rule.

The best practice is to define custom styles in the skin.

• Cell width— Type a positive number to indicate the pixel width of this cell. At runtime, normal browser processing for rendering tables determines the actual displayed width.
• Cell height— Type the desired cell height in pixels.
• Cell read-write style — Type the name of the custom style, for example, custom_stylename, that you want to apply to this cell when the user form or flow action form appears in read-write mode.
• Cell read-only style — Type the name of the custom style, for example, custom_stylename, that you want to apply to this cell when the user form or flow action form appears in read-only mode.
• Cell inline style — Type CSS code to define an inline style. As a best practice, define custom styles in the skin. See Skin form — Components tab — General — Custom styles.