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Field Elements

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Element properties provides the facility to add/edit field element properties available within the Form Designer.  A field elements are the smallest components in the form.  A field element can be used for either for displaying data and/or capturing data.  Each field element contain a number of properties categorized into tabs.

 

The following are field elements supported by Enterprise Forms

 

Field Element

Description

HTML

Used for specifying native HTML tags providing the flexibility of adding virtually any HTML content to the form.  Click here for more information on HTML

Label

Used for providing static or dynamic text content with the ability to assign a default value

TextField

Used for capturing a single line of text data

TextArea

Used for capturing multi-line of text data

RichText

Used for capturing HTML text data

Checkbox

Used for providing check box option for yes/no type values

CheckBoxList

Used for providing multiple selection of values through a list of check boxes

RadioButton

Used for providing a single radio button field for yes/no type values

RadioButtonList

Used for providing multiple radio buttons to select from number of options.  The difference between RadioButtonList and CheckBoxList is that multiple selections can be made with CheckBoxList whereas only one selection can be made with RadioButtonList

SelectList

Used for providing drop down list of option values

FileUpload

Used for capturing file attachments

Datagrid

Used for displaying read-only data from an external source

Button

Used for triggering a data postback to the server

 

 

Edit Field Element Properties

 

Select a Field Element from the list available (only required when adding new Field Element)
Go through the individual Tabs available for each the field element
Provide the required value for properties containing a red * next to it.
Click on Save to apply changes and close the window