HTML Editor is capable of applying HTML formatting to the text entered into this area.
Form Design Actions
Clicking on a control pops up a design actions menu with the following options:
- Cut action cuts the control. Use the paste action to move the control to another location after cutting.
- Copy action copies the control. Use the paste action to add the control to another location after copying.
- Delete action deletes the control.
- XML is used to view and edit the XML of the control.
- Convert is used to change the content control into other control types.
When you click on convert button, text box is converted to text box.
Design
Rich Editor
This selection enables / disables the HTML format menu.
Track Changes ?
When this checkbox is selected changes made on the content of HTML box are recorded and are shown with a different background color. Changes can be made visible / hidden with the Show Changes button on HTML format menu. Track Changes option also enables a text box named Allow Commit Changes XPath on the form design.
Allow Commit Changes XPath
This option accepts only 0 and 1 values. You can simply type the value or the Xpath to get it.
- When entered 1; changes made on the content can be accepted or rejected via the buttons on the format menu. These buttons show up when the changed text is selected. If rejected, changes are discarded. However if the changes are accepted their background color dissappear and they are displayed as the same with main text. Later if any accepted text is deleted, it is displayed with a strikethrough (
example) and these parts become visible/hidden when Show Changes button is clicked. - When entered 0; changes are always displayed with a different background colour.
Size
Large, Big, Medium, and Small options are listed. Selecting one of these will shrink or fit the html box into its container.
Place Holder
Any text in this area will be written as faded in the html box when it is empty.
Hints The text entered in this area pops up when you hover the field.
Rules
Required for Group Enter any name into this area to specify a validation group for the related control. After that, when you enter this same validation group name into a Validation Group area on any action button of any task, it will be checked for validation whenever the action is selected on the form.
Dynamic Rules
The dynamic rules section allows specifying format and warning messages of any element and section. It consists of two parts, one of them is for formatting rules, and the other one is for validation rules.
Data
Bound Xpath XPath of the element. If set to empty, it uses the parent XPath.
Other Properties Clicking on a control pops up a design actions menu with the following options: