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Table of Contents

Introduction

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Text Area is one of the generic HTML Form input elements. Unlike Text Field, Text Area has multi-row like interface

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for a user to type in more information

Get Started

The easiest way to see how the Text Area button works is to use the existing built-in App Expenses Claims.

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Here are the steps:

StepsScreens (Click to view)
  1. Start the Joget Server and open the App Center.

  2. Log in as admin and click on the pencil icon on the Expenses Claim to open the Design App. (see Figure 1)

  3. Click on the Create New Form button and fill up the Form Details as follows (see Figure 2):
    1. Form ID: textArea
    2. Form Name:  Text Area
    3. Table Name: j_expense_claim


  4. Drag and drop a Text Area element on to the canvas.

  5. Hover the mouse over the Text Area element on the canvas and click on Edit to open up the Edit Text Area properties.

  6. Fill up the Edit Popup Select Box properties as follows and click on OK: (see Figure 3)
      1. ID: justification
      2. Label: Justification

  7. Click on Preview.

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Figure 1


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Figure 2


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Figure 3 

Text Area Properties

Edit Text Area

NameDescriptionScreen (Click to view)
Panel
borderColorpurple
borderWidth1
titleBGColor#ddccff
borderStylesolid
titleNew Feature

This feature is enhanced in Joget Workflow v6 to support placeholder.

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Figure 1: Sample Text Area

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Figure 2: Text Area Properties

NameDescription
IDElement ID (By declaring as "justification", a corresponding database table column "c_justification" will be created)

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LabelElement Label to be displayed to the end-user.

 

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Advanced Options

Data

NameDescriptionScreen (Click to view)
Value

Default Value when there's no existing value found.

Hash

A hash variable is accepted here. For example, you may key the following

Code Block
#currentUser.firstName# #currentUser.lastName#

to pre-populate the field with

current

currently logged in user's name.

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Validator

Attach a Validator plugin to validate the input value.

Info
titleWhen will validation takes place?

Validation will

takes

take place whenever a form is submitted, except when it is submitted as "Save as Draft".

Placeholder

UI

infoNew Feature added in Joget Workflow v6
Name
titleNew Feature
DescriptionScreen (Click to view)
Placeholder

The placeholder attribute specifies a short hint that describes the expected value of an input field (e.g. a sample value or a short description of the expected format). The short hint is displayed in the input field before the user enters a value.

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ColsColumn size.
RowsRow size.
Readonly

Determines if the element is editable.

Display field as Label when readonly?

Displays the value of the element as plain text when an element is set to "Readonly".

Workflow

NameDescriptionScreen (Click to view)
Workflow Variable

If the form is part of a workflow process, upon saving of the form (by clicking on "Save as Draft" or "Complete" button). The value in this input field will be saved into the corresponding workflow variable named here.

Info
titleUsing a non-existent Workflow Variable name

You will get the following warning with the name printed out (e.g. status) in the server log if you attempt to map to a non-existent Workflow Variable.

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context attribute status does not exist in process context - adding new attributes to the process context is not allowed

 

 

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