Paragraph form - Completing the Paragraph tab
Complete this tab to define the contents and appearance of a paragraph.
- The toolbar is available to apply formatting and other edits. Select text with the mouse pointer and click a tool to apply formatting, such as bold, underscore, and italics.
- Click to view or update the source as HTML codes. In source mode, you can add HTML elements and attributes directly, or add JSP tags. For example, you can use the reference JSP tag to present a property value, or add the when JSP tag to conditionalize a portion of the HTML code. If you use JSP tags that identify a clipboard page, include the name and class of that page on the Pages & Classes tab.
Enter rich text for the paragraph. A wide variety of tools are available in the toolbar including fonts, font sizes, colors, lists, formatting, graphic elements and alignments. Certain controls are available only when text is selected.
Use standard Windows operations for cut, copy, and paste to edit the rich text. As best practice, limit the text in this area to 4,000 or fewer characters. Don't place interactive HTML elements (such as <FORM > elements) in paragraph rules that are to be included in email correspondence rules. If you include anchors (<A> elements) in email correspondence, the HREF value must identify a fully qualified link that is valid for the email recipient.) You can't include <IMG> tags in paragraph rules that are to be included in email correspondence rules, unless you enter a fully qualified URL as the SRC= attribute in Source mode, and the email recipient has access to the server containing the images. This is not a limitation of paragraph rules; it is a general restriction on HTML-formatted email messages. |
> Included Section Preview
Select Show the preview of included section check box and any sections included in the paragraph display as they will appear at run time.
> SmartInfo pop-ups
For paragraphs that appear in user forms, you can associate a pop-up SmartInfo section with the paragraph. To configure a Smart Info section:
- Click the SmartInfo icon .
- On the form that appears, enter the Stream Name key part of the section in the Name field.
- Enter a page name in the Using Page field. If you do not provide a Using Page value, at runtime the system uses the Applies To class of this paragraph rule to find the section.
- Enter brief text for the window title in the Header Text field.
- Click Save.
A SmartInfo pop-up window can supply context-specific help to application users. This feature depends on AJAX technology.
The SmartInfo feature supports interactive users as they complete or review a user form. The SmartInfo feature doesn't operate when a paragraph rule is included in a correspondence rule.