Dropdown control Properties — Presentation tab

• 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.
• Read Only (always) — The property value is presented in read-only mode always even when the enclosing layout is in read-write mode. or based on a when condition rule or client-side test, even when the enclosing layout is in read-write mode.
• Read Only (expression) — The property value is presented in read-only mode based on a client-side test. Enter 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 rule or another expression using the && and || operators.

  As a best practice, use the Condition Builder to edit this field. Click the Open condition builder icon to open the tool. See Using the Condition Builder to configure dynamic UI actions.

• Read Only (when) — The property value is presented in read-only mode based on a when condition. Enter the When Name key part of a when condition rule. Click the Open icon to review or create the rule.
• Editable — the control is editable, regardless of the edit mode of the enclosing layout.

• Display text of selected option — displays the caption value of the selected option
• Property value — displays the value of the selected property
• Another property's value — displays the value of the property that you specify. In the field that displays, select the property for which you want to display the value.

Select Auto if you want the layout to determine the width of the control area. This is the default. If you want to specify a fixed width for the drop-down, select Custom and then specify the width in pixels or percentage.

Specifies the format of the drop-down list. You can style drop-down controls and create additional formats in the skin rule. To select a custom format, press the down arrow and select Other.

Select left, right, or center alignment.

A non-negative integer to control the number of digits presented after the decimal place. The default is Auto, which displays a maximum of three decimal places (placeholder zeroes are not added). Select to remove all digits after the decimal point and round to the nearest integer. Select All to include all digits.

• Round to nearest even number — Partial values are rounded to nearest even number. For example +5.5 rounds up to +6; +6.5 rounds down to +6.
• Round up to nearest — Partial values are always rounded up. For example, +5.5 rounds up to +6; +6.5 rounds up to +7.

Select a label indicating the scaling you wish to apply to the number. The scales are K for thousands, M for millions, B for billions, and T for trillions. For instance, if you select Thousands, a value of 20,000 appears as "20 K." If Percentage, the value appears as a percentage sign (.8 appears as "80%").

Select a format (minus sign or parenthesis) for displaying negative numbers.

You can also specify a CSS class if you select one of the Style Ref options. By default, the class name is NegativeNumber.

Select an option for representing the number as

• Currency — Formats the number as a currency using the default locale.
• Constant — A text string or character (for example, "%") ASCII character that you enter.
• Reference — A property value.

Select to use a thousands' separator. Depending upon the default locale, a comma or period is used.

Appears if the Read-only format Type is Text.

Select Yes if you want the characters entered by the user to appear as a string of bullets. The input characters are initially added to the clipboard as unencrypted, clear text values. The system computes the hashed value only as the page is committed to the PegaRULES database. Thereafter, the hashed value appears in both the clipboard and the database row.

Select a property or constant that you want to add either before the displayed property value. For example, when the user name appears, the system can automatically prepend the user's title.

Select a property or constant that you want to add after the displayed property value. For example, when the user name appears, the system can automatically append the full mail extension to the name.

Select to label either outcome using Text or an Image.

Appears if the Type is True/False and Show Value As Image is selected.

Select an image to label either outcome. Used with a boolean type.

Appears if the Type is True/False and Show Value As Text is selected.

Enter a text string to label either outcome. Used with a boolean type.

If the Localize? check box is selected on the section's HTML tab, a SmartPrompt Appears in the Constant field in the Parameters dialog. Select a field value rule if you plan to localize the text. If this text is to be localized, enter no more than 64 characters. A field value rule with pyCaption as the second key part and this text as the final key part is needed for each locale.