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Adding a Chart

About Harnesses

You can add a static or interactive chart to a cell on a harness, section, or flow action form.

Create a report definition or summary view and complete the Chart tab to define the chart.

Test the chart.

Click the down-arrow Arrow at the right end of the Advanced control group and select the Chart control. Drag the control. When the pointer changes shape to indicate that you can drop the layout, release the mouse button.

If the destination cell is not empty, the dropped paragraph replaces the current contents of the cell. Click Magnifying glass to display the Cell Properties panel.

Field

Description

Property

Accept the default property .pyTemplateChart. This property name is a placeholder.

Label Check the checkbox to use the default label for the property; or uncheck it and, in the field that appears, select or create a label.
Label format Select a format from the available options.
Default value

SmartPromptOptional. 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 magnifying glass to start the Expression Builder.

NoteChoose 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.

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 Other Condition to make the visibility depend on a when condition rule or a Java expression.

Check the Reserve space when hidden checkbox, if it appears, to have a blank area appear in the section when the paragraph is hidden.

CautionDo 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.

Check the Required checkbox to make this a required field.

Field

Description

Edit Options Select an edit mode for this control. The edit mode of the control, specified here, takes precedence over section and harness settings.
  • Auto — the control uses the edit mode of the section or harness in which it appears. If the section is set to Read Only, then the control is Read Only. If the section is set to Auto, then the control uses the edit mode of the harness. For example, a New harness is editable, while a Review harness is read only.
  • Editable — the control is editable, regardless of the edit mode of the enclosing layout.
  • Read Only — the property value is presented in read-only mode always, or based on a when condition rule or client-side test, even when the enclosing layout is in read-write mode.
Display advanced presentation options

Select this checkbox to display fields that enable you to specify custom styles.

TipAs a best practice, define custom styles in the skin. See Skin form — Components tab — General — Custom styles.

Advanced Options

Appears only when you select the Display advanced presentation options checkbox.

TipAs a best practice, do not select this checkbox; instead define custom styles in the skin. See Skin form — Components tab — General — Custom styles.

  • Cell read-write style — Type the name of the custom style, for example, custom_stylename, that you want to apply to this cell when the user form or flow action form appears in read-write mode.
  • Cell read-only style — Type the name of the custom style, for example, custom_stylename, that you want to apply to this cell when the user form or flow action form appears in read-only mode.
  • Cell inline style — Type CSS code to define an inline style. As a best practice, define custom styles in the skin. See Skin form — Components tab — General — Custom styles.

Configuring parameters for this deprecated control is only supported in Internet Explorer.

See Actions.

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