Field-Shapes
Beneath field types you can use field shapes to customize the look and feel of fields in your format.
See below a list of available shapes. Notice that you can't use every shape for every field type.
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AJAX-Combo
DEPRECATED use Combo instead.
Character
Valid for field types: Character
Check
DEPRECATED use YesNo instead.
Combo
Valid for field types: Character, Numeric
Customized
Content could be total customized. Could be done e.g. in a xslt withe a postFieldExeption.
Date
Date in short format.
For input fields you could use +/- do increase/decrease the date for on day. And guess what happens if you press "T"oday on a date field?
Valid for field types: DateISO, Date Numeric 5, Date Numeric 7, Date Numeric 8
Date-Long
Date in long format as it is defined in the settings for the locale of the current user.
For more information about Java date pattern see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Valid for field types: DateISO, Date Numeric 5, Date Numeric 7, Date Numeric 8
Email-Link
A mailto: link is generated for the content of the field. In grids as an underlined link and in detail masks with an letter icon behind the field.
Valid for field types: Character
HTMLCustomized
HTMLCustomized uses in XSLT disable-output-escaping="yes". Useful if you like to format a cell or a row in a grid complete free like in the example below.
Example:
<xsl:template name="postFieldException">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@implname='STHash'">
<xsl:variable name="vVom" select="../returnvalue[@implname='TimeIn']/@value"/>
...
<xsl:variable name="vTagTableForeignKey"><xsl:value-of select="../returnvalue[@name='TagTableForeignKey']/@unformatted" /></xsl:variable>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="20px">
<xsl:value-of select="$vImage"/>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<span style="font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;"><xsl:value-of select="$vName"/></span>
<br/>
...
</table>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Valid for field types: Character
HTMLText
HTMLText preserves line feeds and HTML elements in the output. Useful if you like to show the content of a text area or of a RichTextEditor in a grid.
XSLT-Processing is done by:
<xsl:value-of select='str:replaceAll(str:new(string(node())), "\n","<br/>")' disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
Valid for field types: Character
Hyperlink
Valid for field types: Character
Listbox
DEPRECATED
Numeric
Valid for field types: Numeric
Numeric Empty
Like the numeric shape but 0 is suppressed in grids.
Valid for field types: Numeric
Password
Like the Character shape but input is shown as ****
Valid for field types: Character
Textarea
Valid for field types: Character
Time
Time as it is defined in the settings for the locale of the current user.
Valid for field types: TimeISO, Time Numeric 6
Timestamp
Timestamp as it is defined in the settings for the locale of the current user.
Valid for field types: TimestampISO
Upper
Valid for field types: Character
YesNo
Checkbox with '0' or '1' as result. Empty values a handeled as '0'.
Valid for field types: Character
