Text Widget

11.0

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11.0.2

11.0.54

Added the NFC Input function on mobile terminals.

11.0.21

11.0.85

Added the Allow One-Click Clearance function for the text widget on mobile terminals.

Basic

Widget Name

Name (empty by default) of the widget. It is manually entered and usually used in conjunction with parameters. For example, you can pass the widget value to the corresponding parameter after the widget is obtained through the widget name.

Available

Determines whether the widget is available.

Checked (default setting): The widget is editable in the data entry.

Unchecked: The widget is grayed out and not editable.

Visible

Determines whether the widget is visible.

Checked (default setting): The widget is displayed on the data entry page.

Unchecked: The widget is not displayed on the data entry page.

Advanced

Watermark

Displays light gray watermark texts in the widget during the data entry. You can manually enter the needed prompt information in Watermark (empty by default). The watermark disappears after you click the widget editing area.

Validation

Allow Null

Determines whether the widget can be empty.

Checked (default setting): The widget can be empty. Unchecked: A prompt appears in the data entry validation and submission.

Error Tip

This setting item appears when Allow Null is unchecked, allowing you to customize the prompt message. The default message is: "Can not be null."

Filling Rule

Includes rules that need to be met when you enter values in a widget. An error message pops up if the rules are not met.

The following shows eight supported validation rules:

1. None: No rules are validated.

2. Length: validates the text length. You can customize the error prompt.

3. Email: validates the email address format. You can customize the error prompt.

4. ID Number: validates whether the ID number format is standard. You can customize the error prompt.

5. Post Code: validates the post code length. You can customize the error prompt.

6. Telephone Number: validates the fixed telephone number format. You can select preset formats and customize the error prompt.

7. Mobile Number: validates the mobile number length. You can customize the error prompt.

8. Custom (empty by default): You can customize validation rules through regular expressions. For details, see Regular Expression.

Basic

Widget Name

Displays the name (default value as textEditor#) of the widget. It is manually entered and usually used in conjunction with parameters. For example, you can pass the widget value to the corresponding parameter after the widget is obtained through the widget name.

Available

Determines whether the widget is available.

Checked (default setting): The widget is editable in the data entry.

Unchecked: The widget is grayed out and not editable.

Visible

Determines whether the widget is visible.

Checked (default setting): The widget is displayed on the data entry page.

Unchecked: The widget is not displayed on the data entry page.

Advanced

Label Name

You can use the label name to achieve the label function on mobile terminals, because the widget label attribute is supported and the Label Name attribute of general widgets can be recognized on mobile terminals. The Label Widget on the parameter panel is not supported on mobile terminals.

Widget Value

Displays the default value (empty by default) during the widget initialization. String, Field, and Formula are supported.

String: includes characters and texts like "North China".

Field: includes dataset fields, such as the Region field of the dataset ds1. Datasets include template datasets and server datasets.

Formula: includes formulas supported by the designer, such as the following formula through which the value of the cell A1 can be obtained.

Watermark

Displays light gray watermark texts in the widget during the data entry. You can manually enter the needed prompt information in Watermark (empty by default). The watermark disappears after you click the widget editing area.

Font Size

Includes the size of the font (default value as 12) entered in the text box.

Note:

This function is not supported on mobile terminals.

Validation

Allow Null

Determines whether the widget can be empty.

Checked (default setting): The widget can be empty. 

Unchecked: A prompt appears in the data entry validation and submission.

Error Tip

This setting item appears when Allow Null is unchecked, allowing you to customize the prompt message. The default message is: "Can not be null."

Filling Rule

Includes rules that need to be met when you enter values in a widget. An error message pops up if the rules are not met.

The following shows eight supported validation rules:

1. None: No rules are validated.

2. Length: validates the text length. You can customize the error prompt.

3. Email: validates the email address format. You can customize the error prompt.

4. ID Number: validates whether the ID number format is standard. You can customize the error prompt.

5. Post Code: validates the post code length. You can customize the error prompt.

6. Telephone Number: validates the fixed telephone number format. You can select preset formats and customize the error prompt.

7. Mobile Number: validates the mobile number length. You can customize the error prompt.

8. Custom (empty by default): You can customize validation rules through regular expressions. For details, see Regular Expression.

Coords & Size

Widget Location

Includes the widget location (changed based on the horizontal and vertical coordinates) on the parameter panel. The coordinate is automatically displayed based on the widget location.

Widget Size

Includes the widget size. You can resize the widget by changing the Width and Height values. You can also hover your cursor to the widget boundary and drag the boundary until the widget reaches the desired width and height.

Scenario:

Enter empty values in the text widget to query all data.

Enter a single value to query the corresponding data. Enter a range (separating two numbers with any character) to query data within this range.

Scenario:

Perform fuzzy queries through the text widget and highlight fuzzy keywords in the queried data columns.

Document:

Text Widget Fuzzy Query Keyword Highlighting

Scenario:

Display part of the data by filtering data through the time intervals to reduce the displayed report data volume if a table in the database contains time fields and generates new data all the time.