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Tag List

Displays entered texts as separated tags. Press enter or click outside the box to turn a text into a tag.

Design

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

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.

Other properties

Clicking on a control pops up a design actions menu with the following options:

  • Cutaction cuts the control. Use the paste action to move the control to another location after cutting.
  • Copyaction copies the control. Use the paste action to add the control to another location after copying.
  • Deleteaction deletes the control.
  • XMLis used to view and edit the XML of the control.
  • Convertis used to change the content control into other control types.

Data

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

Value XPath XPath to store selection value.

Caption XPath XPath to store selection text value.

Item XPath Items of a tag list content change depending on this setting. The default is "*", which sets it to regard all items as in the same structure. If you want to use different contents for different items, you should dictate it by specifying an XPath.

Data Sources