Formatter Properties for Choice Box:

• Mandatory

  If this box is checked, then the field is mandatory in this view. If this check box is grayed and disabled, then the setting is predefined either in the physical database or in the Object Customizer. These settings take precedence.

  Note that the following interplay between field mandatoriness and visibility comes into play:

  • If a field is set as mandatory in the view customizer or by a rule AND at the same time is set as not visible in the view, than this mandatoriness is ignored.
  • If a field is set as mandatory on the database or object type level, than it remains mandatory even if it is set as not visible in the view.

  When checked, the mandatory field label turns bold in the View Designer.

• Filter attribute in one cell ref.view

  Enables you to select the attributes to be used in the search condition composed in simple reference view search input. The option is valid only if a view is used as a Reference View with one cell view type. See also the Searching in a Reference View topic.

• Descriptive attribute for one cell ref.view

  Select an attribute to be used as a descriptive value of related object in the search field (i.e. define which attributes should be "visible" in the search field when the required object is found). The option is valid only if a view is used as a Reference View with one cell view type. See also the Searching in a Reference View topic.

• Enabled

  If selected, the attribute will become editable. The control may be used for data display and entry or the data display only. 'Editable' means that the field itself is active, it can be selected and edited in the normal way. 'Disabled' means that the field is grayed and the editing is blocked. However, the data can be still selected and copied, which distinguishes this formatter from the 'Label' formatter. This attribute may also be used to dynamically enable or disable the data entry.

  Note the specific appearance of this option in the View Designer: If selected, the view element will be grayed.

• Visible

  Enable / disable a display of the control on the View. The control may exist on the View layout but may be prevented from being displayed on the actual View. It can also be used creatively to leave a "virtual" blank space in the left column of the view.

  Note the specific appearance of this option in the View Designer: If selected, the view element will be hatched.

• Display with empty/unknown value

  Specifies that an “Empty” or “no known” value should be allowed. This controls whether the field can be left empty when the BO is edited, or whether a value must be entered.

• Filter Condition

  The content of an existing value set can be restricted here. Depending on the particular View, this function enables the display options for the value set to be restricted to those relevant for the particular process (if not restricted, it could result in very large and unmanageable number of entry options).

• Maximum Rows

  The number of rows for displaying selection lists can be set in the field. Then if the View contains more values than the specified number of rows, the selection list is shown with a scroll bar.

• Default Focus on this Field

  Here it is possible to decide if the field would have a default focus when the View is opened.