Field
Description
(Appears only when this field is in a section included within the current open rule.) Click to open the section that immediately contains the field.
Select or type a property reference that identifies a single text 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.
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.
- 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 Other Condition to make the visibility depend on a when condition rule or a Java expression.
Check the Reserve space when hidden check box, if it appears, to have a blank area appear in the section when the paragraph is hidden.
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.
Select one of the available options:
- Never: The control is always enabled.
- Always: The control is never enabled
- Condition (expression): In the field that appears you can provide 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 or another expression using the && and || operators. However, as a best practice, click the gear icon and create the expression by using the Expression Builder. See Using the Condition Builder to configure dynamic UI actions.
- Condition (when rule): In the field that appears provide the When Name key part of a when condition. Click the Open icon to review or create the rule.
Select the Required check box to make this a required field.
This option is available only for fields in cells on flow actions and sections. Select to require that when the form appears at run time 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 run time, 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.