Property form
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Use this topic to complete General tab
fields that appear when you create a property of mode Single
Value
, Value List
or Value Group
. For
information on choosing a property mode, see Completing the General tab — Choosing a mode.
The Property Type determines the kind of data that values of the property represent, and can affect the format and allowable characters in the value.
R-5829 B-663 Choose the Property Type carefully. After you save a property rule, you cannot later change its type except in a few special cases, even if no instances or pages have a value for the property. See More about Properties.
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Select When you use an activity or an HTML form to set the value of the property, the value can contain any graphic characters in addition to tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds. Use the |
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Don't confuse the |
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Select The values of properties with this Property Type are always encrypted when stored in the database. When on the clipboard, the values may appear as clear text (not encrypted), until the page containing the property is validated. The value can contain only legal graphic characters. Tabs, carriage returns, and line feed characters are not allowed.
Don't confuse the
You can prevent any text
field from echoing when typed into an HTML form using the
<INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME=...> This HTML does not cause any encryption. This native HTML
feature is not related to the |
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R-7995 Select When you specify the value in your later configuration, use any sequence of digits for the value. You can precede the digits with a plus sign (+12) or a minus sign (-12). |
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Select Your property rule can reference the standard property qualifier named pyDecimalPrecision to fix the number of digits the system keeps after the decimal position in values of this property. |
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Select Internally, a Users need not enter |
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Select Application users are not required to enter
As a best practice, use |
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Select Internally, a For example, 000000 represents midnight and 120000 identifies noon. The value 235959 identifies the second before midnight. Application users are not required to enter
As a best practice, use |
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Select this type to implement encryption for the value. PROJ-466 5.3 See Implementing and using the TextEncrypted type.
Don't confuse the
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These fields determine the presentation of the property when it appears on an HTML form. (By definition, the read-write mode is never used for special properties; only the read-only mode is relevant.)
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Description |
Control |
Optional. For
This field is not meaningful for |
Configure |
If the control rule requires parameters and you want to specify them in this Property form, click the button and enter values as prompted. When completing a Field panel (for a cell in a harness, section, or flow action rule), you can override the parameter values entered here with values that apply to that cell only. PROJ-64 5.3 MELLJ For a list of selected popular formats that use parameters, see Atlas — Standard control rules with parameters. This button does not work with auto-generated control rules. You can customize an auto-generated control only in a section or harness that contains the control. To customize the control, specify the rule in the Control field on the Cell Properties panel and use the magnifying glass icon () next to the field to open the control's Parameters dialog.v6.1 sp2 |
Using the Table Type for input value validation
A property of mode Single Value
, Value List
or Value Group
can use "table validation" to constrain the property's input value to one of a set of specified acceptable values, or to a pattern of values. At runtime, the system verifies that the value matches one on the list, and validates the value is appropriate input for the property.
To use table validation:
Single Value
, Value List
, or Value Group
for the Property Mode field. (You cannot use table validation for properties of any other
modes.) R-5676XXXXXXXXXXXX KOWAL 6.2 build Table Type fields appear for Java Property and Java Property List also. Should those be included here? Are they supported for this?None
value). The appropriate fields for that type appear in the form.
See Property form General tab — Completing the Table fields — Basics for details about how the system compares the set of acceptable values to the input values.
After you have specified the table validation you want and completed the appropriate fields:
Field Value
table type OSMAE 8/23/05
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Description |
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Using the Preview toolbar button
For Single Value
properties, you can preview the
presentation and other aspects of the property. B-17329
BYRNB
Click the Preview toolbar button () to see an approximate presentation of the property as it will appear in both input and display at runtime. For properties not marked as Special, you can preview the representation of a specific value: MARTT 5/31/05
The preview presentation does not reflect the pyMinimumLength property qualifier (when referenced on the Qualifiers tab) unless the Edit Input field contains pyMinimumLength-Enforce. B-19154 B-17179
You can't preview a TextEncrypted property if your system does not include a cipher algorithm. BUG-3613 Rejected