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Harness and Section forms - Adding formatted text

Cells and headers in a layout can present formatted text. You can style formatted text in the skin rule. See Skin form — Components — Controls — Text inputs and Formatted text.

Adding a formatted text control

  1. Click the down-arrow Arrow at the right end of the Basic control group and select Formatted text.
  2. Drag the control into the layout and release the mouse button to drop the control.
    If you are using a cell-based layout and you drag the control into a cell that is not empty, then the dropped control replaces the current contents of the cell.
  3. Click the Gear icon Gear icon to display the Properties panel and complete the following tabs:

To speed development, you can drag and drop a Single Value property from the Application Explorer into the right cell of a pair of adjacent cells. The system drops a label control into the left cell (if it is empty).

General tab

Field

Description
Property

Press the down arrow to select a property.

If the set of possible values is provided by a property using the Table Type field , specify a Single Value mode property that has a Table Type other than None.

For Single Value properties in the Applies to class (or higher) of the current rule, you can drag a property name into the cell from the list of properties visible in the Application Explorer. If the container that holds this field has a non-blank Using Page value, you can drag a Single Value property from within that embedded page property.

Click (Pencil) 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.

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.

Value

Select to display one of the following:

  • 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.
  • Constant— displays the value that you specify. In the field that displays, type that constant.
  • Display text of selected option— displays the description
  • Localize property value— displays the localized value of the property that you specify.
Visibility

To control the visibility of the label, select one of the following:

  • Always: always visible
  • Condition (expression): the region is visible under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a condition or click to open the Condition Builder. You can define 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.
  • Condition (when): the region is visible under the specified condition. In the field that displays, select a when rule. Click to create a new when condition or review an existing when condition.

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.
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.

Presentation tab

Field

Description
Style

Specifies the skin format for this control. You can style fomatted text in the skin.

Advanced Options

Appears only when you select the Display advanced presentation options check box.

Note: As a best practice, define custom styles in the skin. .

  • Cell width— Type a positive number to indicate the pixel width of this cell. At runtime, normal browser processing for rendering tables determines the actual displayed width.
  • Cell height— Type the desired cell height in pixels.
  • 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.
Format  
Type

Select a format (read-only) used with this property. Your selection filters the format options.

Group/Selection

Description
None The property is not formatted. There are no options.
Date Renders DateTime and Text property types in date-only format (hours and minutes are not displayed). See Understanding the Date, Time of Day, and DateTime property types.

Specify the format in the Date Format field.
Date/Time Renders DateTime and Text property types in date and time format. See Understanding the Date, Time of Day, and DateTime property types.

Specify the format in the DateTime Format field.
Number Numeric properties on output.
Text Unedited text, which may contain spaces, tabs, line break characters, and other control characters.
True/False Boolean values.

Specify the format in the True Label and False Label fields.
DateTime Format
or
Date Format

Appears if Type is Date/Time or Date.

Select one of the following:

  • A DateTime format (for example: 1/1/01 1:00 AM), or a Date format (for example: 1/1/01). The formats are locale-specific, changing automatically based on the value set on each user's Windows workstation, or the locale of a user, as recorded in the Operator ID data instance.
  • The elapsed time format (2 days, 5 hours ago). The system displays the value calculated as the difference between the current system date/time and the date/time value of the property. For example:

Current = 3/21/2011

Property value of 3/20/2011 = 1 day ago

Property value of 3/22/2011 = 1 day from now

The units of measure are minutes, hours, days, and years. If greater than 59 minutes, the value is represented in two units (unless the difference is exactly one unit). For example:

1 hour, 10 minutes

2 days, 20 hours

1 month, 4 days

1 year, 3 months

If less than a minute, the value is displayed as "less than a minute ago" (or from now).

To calculate months and days, the system uses today's numerical day in the previous month(s). For example, if today is March 21, one month ago was February 21, not one month, six days ago.

If the property is a Date type or the format is Date, minutes are excluded.

Text Alignment

Appears if Type is Number.

Select left, right, or center alignment.
Decimal Places

Appears if Type is Number.

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.
Scale

Appears if Type is Number.

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%").
Negative Format

Appears if the Type is Number.

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.
Symbol

Appears if Type is Number. When a symbol is specified an additional character(s) is prepended to the value. Currency automatically uses the localized currency symbol, constant uses a string, and reference uses a property value.

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.
Separators

Appears if Type is Number.

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

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.
Auto prepend

Appears if Type is Text and the control is not obfuscated.

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.
Auto append

Appears if Type is Text and the control is not obfuscated.

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.
Show Value As

Appears if the Type is True/False.

Select to label either outcome using Text or an Image.
True Image

False Image

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

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

False Text

Appears if the Type is True/False and Show Value AsText 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.

 

 

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