Dropdown control Properties

Field

Description

Property

Press the down arrow to select a property, the value of which will be set by the option selected from the drop-down list at run time.

You can configure a list of options for the drop-down control in the List Source area, as well as select the caption and value for the options. Dropdown options can come from the list defined on the property or from a clipboard page, data page, or report definition.

If the set of possible values is provided by a property using the Table Type field , specify a Single Value mode property that has a Table Type other than None.

For Single Value properties in the Applies to class (or higher) of the current rule, you can drag a property name, from the list of properties visible in the Application Explorer, into the layout. If the container that holds this field has a non-blank Using Page value, you can drag a Single Value property from within that embedded page property.

Click the Open icon to review a property (if the reference is to an existing property in the Applies To class of this rule or a parent of that class). If the property is not found, the New dialog box for the property form appears.

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.

Label

Select Use property default to use the label Dropdown.

Clear the check box to either type a text string, or select a field value from the SmartPrompt list that contains records with Field Name key part of pyCaption.

Click the Open icon to open a field value or create a one.

Default value

Optional. Enter a constant value for an expression, to be used only when the user form or flow action form appears in read-write mode rather than read-only mode.

Click the Gear icon to start the Expression Builder.

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.

Tooltip

If you want to display a tooltip when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the drop-down list, type a text string such as Select to open an item, or select a field value from the SmartPrompt list that contains records with Field Name key part of pyActionPrompt.

Click the Open icon to open a field value record or create a new one.

This tooltip applies to the entire drop-down list.

If the List Source Type is Data page, Clipboard page or Report definition, you can also specify a tooltip that displays when the user hovers the mouse pointer over an item within the drop-down list. To do this, specify the Property for tooltip in the List Source area on the General tab.

Visibility

Select to determine when the property value is to appear. Always is the default. (If this setting is not applicable, the cell contents are blank.)

Choose Always, If Not Blank, or If Not Zero to have the field appear or be hidden based on the property value at the time this area of the user form (section or flow action) is first presented or refreshed. This condition is checked only once.
Choose Condition (when) or Condition (expression) to make the visibility depend on a when condition rule or a Java expression.

Caution: Do not make an input field invisible if your application expects user input on the field. When a user submits an HTML form, an input field that is not visible is not included in the HTTP details.

Disable

Select to disable the text input:

Never: never disabled
Always: always disabled
Condition (expression): the text input is disabled under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a condition or click the Gear icon 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 text input is disabled under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a when rule. Click the Open icon to create a new when condition or review an existing when condition.

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 when the flow action form appears in read-write mode. (The asterisk also appears if the Label control's Value For field is not blank and the Label control's Required box is checked.)
For sections, checking this box enables client-side format validation when this section is part of a harness form that has the Enable Client Side Validation box selected on the HTML tab. At runtime, users who leave this field blank and submit the form are notified immediately that the field is required; the form is not transmitted to the server.

Include placeholder

Select to display by default a hint or instructional text that helps users select a correct value.

Either enter a text string, or select a field value from the SmartPrompt list that contains records with Field Name key part of part of pyCaption.

Click the Open icon to open a field value record or create a one.

List Source

Type

Select one of the following as the source for the drop-down list:

As defined on property
Data page— specify the data page in the Data Page field.
Clipboard page— specify the clipboard page in the Source field. The clipboard page should be a PageList property. After you select a PageList property more options become available.
Report definition— specify the class in the Applies To field and then select the Report Definition.

When the source is a clipboard page, data page, or a report definition, you can categorize items within the drop-down list. When a drop-down list is bound to a data page or report definition that accepts parameters and the parameter value uses a property reference, the drop-down list automatically refreshes with new items whenever the property value changes. No additional configuration is required. This can be used to set up cascading dropdowns or any combination of controls.

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