Text Box

The text box is useful for getting input from users and displaying it.

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 the convert button, the text box is converted to HTML editor.

Design

You can find the visibility and style options of the text box under the design tab of the right-hand menu.

Size
Large, Big, Medium and Small options are listed. Selecting one of these will shrink or fit the text box into its container.

Place Holder
Any text in this area will be written as faded in the text box when it is empty.

Hints
The text in this area pops up when you hover over the text box.

Type
Specify the type of a text box as text, password, email, search or URL. According to the type, a related icon shows up on the leftmost of the text box. In addition, when the password type is selected, the input is displayed in asterisk characters.

Rules

Required for the 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.

Maximum Length
Maximum allowed length of a text value.

Input Mask
Allowed input mask. You should use 9 for [0-9], a for [a-Z], * for [0-a-Z].

For example, The mask of 7548 AB is 9999 aa

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.

Formatting rules allow you to change the formats (text colour, background colour, style) and visibility of control depending on a condition.
Further information can be found here.
Validation rules allow you to validate the data that the end user enters.
Further information can be found here.

Data

Bound XPath

XPath of the element. If set to empty, it uses the parent XPath.