Text area control - General tab
A text area is an area in which the user types or pastes one or multiple lines of text, without formatting the text. You can complete the General tab while adding a Text area control.
Field | Description |
Property | Press the down arrow to select a property reference that identifies
a single text value. Alternatively, you can drag a property name
from the lists of properties visible in the Application Explorer.
Typically, this works for Click the Open icon to review the property (if the reference is to an existing property in the Applies To class of this rule or a parent of that class). If the property is not found, the New dialog box for the property form appears. 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 Sections Completing the Parameter tab. For a harness, the property generally must be on the primary page of the rule — the page corresponding to the Applies To key part of the rule. However, a section within the harness may have a different Applies To class, and that section can include properties from its own class. If this field is always displayed as read-only, you can enter a
linked property reference here, of the form
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Default value | Optional. 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.
Choose 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 | To control the visibility of the label, select one of the following:
If this section is to become part of navigation in a composite portal, you can make the header visible only when a specific space is the current space. Enter an expression here similar to the following: pyCurrentSpace=="ASpaceName" Then select the Run
visibility condition on client check box. |
Disable | |
Wrap Text | Select if the label is to be presented as multiple lines when the text is longer than the cell width. If this check box box is not selected, the label may appear truncated at runtime. |
Required | This box appears only for fields in cells on flow actions and
sections. Select to require that (when the form appears at runtime in
read-write mode) users cannot successfully submit the form if the field
is blank. Selecting Required marks the label for this field with an orange asterisk when the flow action form appears in read-write mode. (The asterisk also appears if the Label control's Value For field is not blank and the Label control's Required box is checked.) For sections, checking this box enables client-side format validation when this section is part of a harness form that has the Enable Client Side Validation box selected on the HTML tab. At runtime, users who leave this field blank and submit the form are notified immediately that the field is required; the form is not transmitted to the server. |
Identifiers | |
Tour ID | Optional: Provide an ID for use in a guided tour. Use a combination of numbers, letters, and underscores. Pega Platform uses the Tour ID when it finds an anchor button during a tour stop anchor point. |
Test ID | Optional: If authorized, you can provide a unique Test ID to better support automated testing of your application. When creating a control that supports you can use a combination of numbers, letters, and underscores, or click the Generate ID button to create a unique ID. The attribute data-test-id is then generated for the selected element. After the test ID has been generated, you can view your Test ID in HTML or display it in the Enabling run-time branching and editing panel. You also have the option to have all controls that support Test IDs in a ruleset updated in bulk. The Test ID is available to access groups that include the PegaRULES:TestID privilege. To disable Test ID, remove the PegaRULES:TestID from the access group. |
- Adding a Text area control
A text area is an area in which the user types or pastes one or multiple lines of text, without formatting the text.
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