Purpose-Specific Control— General tab |
Click the in the control's header to display control's properties panel, and then select the General tab.
General properties for purpose-specific controls vary according to type. The control you have selected will have some of the following properties.
Field |
Description |
Property |
Press the down arrow to select a property reference that identifies a single text value. Alternatively, you can drag a property name from the lists of properties visible in the Application Explorer. Typically, this works for Click You can reference properties on any page identified on the Pages & Classes tab, using the normal notation pagename.propertyname for pages other than the page corresponding to the Applies To class of the rule. If this field is in 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 field, 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. For a harness, the property generally must be on the primary page of the rule — the page corresponding to the Applies To key part of the rule. However, a section within the harness may have a different Applies To class, and that section can include properties from its own class. If this field is always displayed as read-only, you can enter a linked property reference here, of the form .AAAA.BBBB, where AAAA is the linked property and BBBB is any property reference in the object identified by the value of AAAA as a key. For example, if the property AAAA has a value corresponding to a key of a Data-Admin-Operator-ID instance, then .AAAA.pyUserName presents that Operator ID's full name. This allows values from that object to appear (read-only) in the run-time display, though your processing does not explicitly load the object onto the clipboard. |
Label |
Select to use the default label for the property or specify your own label. select or create a label. Use SmartPrompt to select a field value rule if you plan to localize the text. See About the Localization wizard. |
Default value |
Optional. Enter a constant value for the property value, a property reference, or an expression, to be used only when the user form or flow action form appears in read-write mode rather than read-only mode. Choose a default value that speeds data entry. When the system renders a harness or section in read-only mode (for example because the read-write mode requires a privilege that the current user does not hold), the default value does not appear, because data entry is not permitted. |
Placeholder |
Select None if you do not want to display placeholder text. Select Other if you want to display a hint or instructional text in the field. The text disappears when the user enters a value. If the user does not enter a value, the placeholder text reappears when the field loses focus. |
Tooltip |
Specify a tooltip to display when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the control. You can press the down arrow to select a property value or type the text that you want to display as the tooltip. As a best practice, start the sentence with a verb, either in the imperative ("Enter price of item here") or as an infinitive ("To cancel the order, click here"). Use SmartPrompt to select a field value rule if you plan to localize the text. See About the Localization wizard. |
Visibility |
To control the visibility of the container, select one of the following:
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" Then select the Run visibility condition on client checkbox. |
Disable |
Select to disable the text input:
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Required |
Appears only for fields in cells on flow actions and sections. Select to require that when the form appears at runtime in read-write mode, users cannot successfully submit the form if the field is blank. Selecting Required marks the label for this field with an orange asterisk |
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Purpose-specific controls
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