Paragraph form
Completing the Paragraph tab

Complete this tab to define the contents and appearance of a paragraph.

• The toolbar is available to apply formatting and other edits. Select text with the mouse pointer and click a tool to apply formatting, such as bold, underscore, and italics.
• Click to view or update the source as HTML codes. In source mode, you can add HTML elements and attributes directly, or add JSP tags. For example, you can use the reference JSP tag to present a property value, or add the when JSP tag to conditionalize a portion of the HTML code. If you use JSP tags that identify a clipboard page, include the name and class of that page on the Pages & Classes tab.

Enter rich text for the paragraph. A wide variety of tools are available in the toolbar including fonts, font sizes, colors, lists, formatting, graphic elements and alignments. Certain controls are available only when text is selected. Toolbar Icon Result Bold the selected text using the <strong> HTML tag. Make the selected text italics. Make the selected text underscored. Change the font of selected text. Change the font size of selected text Change the font color of the selected text. Choose a color from the palette. Set the background color of the selected area. Choose a color from the palette. Convert the selected paragraphs to an unordered list (<ul> tag). Convert the selected paragraphs to an ordered list (<ol> tag). Remove formatting from the selected text. Indent, increase space at the beginning of the selected lines. Outdent, reduce space at the beginning of the selected lines. Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Paste as plain text Paste from Microsoft Word Left-align the lines in the selected paragraph. Center the lines in the selected paragraph. Right=-align the lines in the selected paragraph. Justify the lines in the selected paragraph by adding spaces. Spell check the paragraph. Insert a table. Insert a reference to an image. (The URL must identify an image that is available to the correspondence recipient.) Select the Auto resize check box to enable responsiveness for the image. At runtime, the image resizes in response to a change in broswer window size. Switch to source mode. Convert the selected text to a subscript. Convert the selected text to a superscript. Make the selected text an HTML link (<a> tag). In a pop-up window, enter the HREF= value in the URL field. Optionally, enter a text in the Title field. Click OK. Remove an HTML link. Maximize the Rich Text Editor Include the value of a scalar property at the selected insertion point. Complete the pop-up window to supply the property Name, an optional Format (control) and an optional When condition rule. You may type in a full property reference. Click Save. The system generates a <pega:reference > JSP tag from the information you provide. Include the value of a section or paragraph rule at the selected insertion point. Complete the pop-up window to identify the rule type (section or paragraph), the Purpose key part, an optional When condition rule, and (if the included rule is based on a page other than the page of this paragraph), a Using Page page name value. Click Save. The system creates a <pega:include ..> JSP tag from the information you supply. Make the selected text a link that presents a SmartInfo pop-up section. See SmartInfo pop-ups below. Use standard Windows operations for cut, copy, and paste to edit the rich text. As best practice, limit the text in this area to 4,000 or fewer characters. Don't place interactive HTML elements (such as <FORM > elements) in paragraph rules that are to be included in email correspondence rules. If you include anchors (<A> elements) in email correspondence, the HREF value must identify a fully qualified link that is valid for the email recipient.) You can't include <IMG> tags in paragraph rules that are to be included in email correspondence rules, unless you enter a fully qualified URL as the SRC= attribute in Source mode, and the email recipient has access to the server containing the images. This is not a limitation of paragraph rules; it is a general restriction on HTML-formatted email messages.

Included Section Preview

Select Show the preview of included section check box and any sections included in the paragraph display as they will appear at run time.

SmartInfo pop-ups

For paragraphs that appear in user forms, you can associate a pop-up SmartInfo section with the paragraph. To configure a Smart Info section:

1. Click the SmartInfo icon .
2. On the form that appears, enter the Stream Name key part of the section in the Name field.
3. Optional. Enter a page name in the Using Page field. If you do not provide a Using Page value, at runtime the system uses the Applies To class of this paragraph rule to find the section.
4. Enter brief text for the window title in the Header Text field.
5. Click Save.

A SmartInfo pop-up window can supply context-specific help to application users. This feature depends on AJAX technology.

The SmartInfo feature supports interactive users as they complete or review a user form. The SmartInfo feature doesn't operate when a paragraph rule is included in a correspondence rule.

About Paragraph rules