Html Box

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.

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.

  • 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.

 

Other Properties

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.

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