Harness, Section, and Flow Action forms
Fields — Adding a Select box
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A cell in a layout can present the value of a property, as display-only or as an input field. Follow these instructions to control the presentation of a property value in a Select box. PROJ-649 5.4
Don't confuse this Select control —
which supports the run-time presentation of a fixed list of
choices, such as produced in the Table Type area of a
property rule — with the Dynamic Select control, where the choices
are determined at runtime by running an activity. See Harness, Section, and Flow Action forms
— Adding a Dynamic Select control.
1. Drag and
drop the Select control
Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Basic
control group (
) and select the Select
control (
). Drag
the control to the cell or header that is to contain the property
value. When the pointer changes shape to indicate that a single cell
is selected, release the mouse button to drop the control.
If the cell is not empty, the dropped control replaces the current
contents of the cell. Click the magnifying glass (
)to display the
Cell Properties panel.
2. Complete the
Cell Properties panel — Top fields
Click the magnifying glass icon () to open the Cell Properties panel.
Complete the top fields that appear. GRP-229
If the panel is pinned (
), the wireframe presentation on the rule form
changes immediately to reflect of your inputs. If the panel is not
pinned (
), click Apply to apply your inputs.
Field |
Description |
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| Property |
Alternatively, you can drag a property name from the lists
of properties visible in the Application Explorer. Typically,
this works for Click the pencil icon ( 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 Section rules — Completing the Parameter tab. Proj-1424 |
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| Control |
Click the magnifying glass icon (
Click OK to save parameter values. |
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| Behavior |
Optional. Leave blank if no dynamic form actions to other parts of the form are to occur based on user updates or values for this field. C-1990 To establish a dynamic form action, click the magnifying
glass icon ( Click the help icon ( Client event support is not available for harness, section, or flow action rules that use directives. |
3. Complete the
Cell Properties panel — General tab
4. Complete the
Cell Properties panel — Advanced tab
Copying,
deleting, duplicating, or moving a Select box
Use these Windows operations to speed development:
Select or type a property reference that identifies a
single text value. SR-4597 B-22011 Single Value
only? (If you are only prototyping a form and the
property you want to reference is not yet defined, use the
template property .pyTemplateSelect.)
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)to supply parameter values
for this control rule:
SHIFT key, select the cell, drag and drop it in
another cell, in the same one layout or another layout.
PROJ-198 RULE-298