Layout Group Properties — General tab

Click the in the layout group header to display the Layout group properties panel, and then select the General tab.

Field

Description

Layout format

Select a layout format for the layout group:

  • Default
  • Tab
  • Accordion
  • Stacked
  • Menu
  • Other

Select Other to select from additional layout groups defined in the skin.

You can create and modify layout group formats in the skin.

Container format

Select a format for the container.

Select Other to select from custom container formats defined in the skin. In the field that appears, specify the custom format.

Visibility

To control the visibility of the container, 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.

Advanced featureIf 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"

Then select the Run visibility condition on client check box.
Display header and title

Select if you want to display a header for the dynamic layout. Container settings appear when you select this check box.

NoteIf 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 the length to no more than 64 characters. When practical, choose a caption already included in a language pack, to simplify later localization. A field value rule with this text as the final key part is needed for each locale. See About the Localization wizard.

Container Settings  
Title Optional. Type text to display in the accordion header or subheader. This text may include directives or JSP tags, such as <p:r > or <pega:lookup >.

NoteIf you plan to localize the application, choose the text carefully and limit the length to no more than 64 characters. A field value rule with this text as the final key part is needed for each locale. See About the Localization wizard.

Include icon with title Select if you want to include an icon in the title bar.
Icon

Optional. Click to open the Image Library landing page and select an image to include on the left side of the header.

Icon title

If you want to display a tooltip when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the icon, type a text string within quotations, for example, "Select to view list".

Body visibility

Select one of the following to determine visibility:

  • Always: always visible
  • Condition (expression): visible under the specified condition expression. 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): visible under the specified when condition. In the field that displays, select a when rule. Click to create a new when condition or review an existing when condition.

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

Header type Choose the format to be used to present this header:
  • Bar — A horizontal bar that is always present. The section appears as a single horizontal strip; all labels and values visible on the strip.
  • Collapsible — A horizontal bar marked with an expand icon (expand) or collapse icon () that marks an area below the bar that users can expand or collapse (hide).
  • Fieldset — Provides no header area, but a border around the contents of the layout with a single text label. (This produces HTML FieldSet and Legend elements.)
Expand when Appears when the Header type is Collapsible. Specify the When condition that must be met to expand the content.
Expanded on load

Appears when the Header type is Collapsible.

Select to display the container expanded, rather than collapsed., on load.

Defer load contents

Optional. Choose this option to delay loading at runtime of the section content until the user clicks the header. Deferring enables users to start using other parts of the page rather than waiting for this section to load.

To enable users to take actions, such as submit, on a work item while other content is still being loaded, configure sections to use defer loaded asynchronous declare pages. See PDN How to configure non-blocking UI using Asynchronous Declare Pages (ADP).

Specify a pre-loading activity Optional. If the Header type is Collapsible, you can specify an activity to be run, prior to loading, when the container is expanded by a click. This activity can compute property values and other aspects of the expanded container. As a best practice, create a defer loaded wrapper section with the retrieval activity (instead of having multiple defer loaded sections with wrapper activities.)

 

Definitions Layout group
Related topics

Harness and section forms — Adding a Layout Group

Skin form — Components tab — Layouts — Layout Groups