Column layout properties - General tab

Field

Description

Displays the selected column layout template. Choose a different column layout template from the list, if desired.

Select a layout format for the column layout. The formats available are dependent upon the column template you selected.

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

You can create and modify column layout formats in the skin. Skin form — Components tab — Layouts — Column Layouts.

Select a format for the container. Select Other to select from custom container formats defined in the skin.

Appears when you select Other as the Container format. Specify a custom container format defined in the skin.

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 the Open condition bulidericon 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 the Open icon 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"

Appears when you select Conditional Visibility and enter a simple expression in the field that displays.

Select the Run visibility condition on clientcheck box to cause dynamic execution of the condition each time the value of a property stated in the condition changes.

Enter text to appear in the header or subheader.

If 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.

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 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.

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

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".

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 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): visible under the specified when 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.

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

Appears when you select Conditional Visibility and enter a simple expression in the field that displays.

Select the Run visibility condition on clientcheck box to cause dynamic execution of the condition each time the value of a property stated in the condition changes.

Conditions are automatically re-evaluated when the user updates a property value. By default, controls that allow typing, such as Text Input, are evaluated when the user leaves the field. To re-evaluate conditions as the user types, use the Apply Conditions action with a Keyboard event. See Control Form — Completing the Control tab.

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).

• 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 icons that mark an area below the bar that users can expand or collapse.
• 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.)

Optional. If authorized, you can provide a unique Test ID for use in your test suite in order to support better automated testing against any Pega application.

When creating a control that supports Test ID, the Test ID field is initially blank. Use a combination of numbers, letters, and underscores, or click the Generate ID button to create a time stamp as a unique ID. The attribute data-test-id is then generated for the selected element.

When you save an existing section, any supported controls that do not have a Test ID will have one automatically generated. You can override these with a custom ID at a later time.

Once generated, you can view your Test ID in HTML or display it in the Live UI panel.

You also have the option to have all controls that support Test IDs in a ruleset updated in bulk.

A standard, out-of-the-box developer role, PegaRULES:SysAdm4, includes the privilege for Test ID. To disable Test ID for this role, modify the pxTestID privilege.