how to add spaces in appian

RE: how to add spaces in appian

kaushikr276 — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:22:20 GMT

@sentilar hey senthilar, the problem is only that number of fields in single section is more, so i needed to add blank text fields for grouping of them instead of all fields displaying after one another without grouping.

RE: how to add spaces in appian

senthilar — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:20:24 GMT

Do you want to post a screenshot so that audience can actually see the problem?

RE: how to add spaces in appian

kaushikr276 — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:05:20 GMT

@alok176 Currently as per business expectation number of fields present in single section is more for eg, Personal Details sections have 25-30 fields in two column layout. So i can't categorize them in another section.

As you said we can use a!richTextDisplayField() which can act as sub-header, but again i need to add some empty textboxes on second column to make alignment of fields.

RE: how to add spaces in appian

kaushikr276 — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:19:01 GMT

@reginaldms377 thanks for the info, but my concern is about number of fields which are present in single section, how can we make visual separation in them without adding blank text fields

RE: how to add spaces in appian

aloks0189 — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 08:42:22 GMT

@kaushikr276 generally whenever number of fields are getting exceeds, it's a good idea to separate it in number of Sections, may i know, is there any specific reason behind you can't categorize them into multiple sections, as you can have multiple section in a single interface.

However if this is what your requirement, then try using a!richTextDisplayField() as readOnly where you can have style, font like Bold, underline, italic etc, you can treat this as a sub-heading and after that you can display their respective Fields and so on

I hope this will help you.

RE: how to add spaces in appian

reginaldm377 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:11:52 GMT

I'm not sure how large your data is, what type of data you're using, or the size of the field(s) that displays your data, but I suggest playing with combinations of the following functions which will help split your data for displaying purposes:

1. char(09) -Adds indentation (i.e. value: char(09) & ri!data)
2. split() - splits text based on delimiter within text
3. leftb() - returns only a specified number of bytes starting from the left.
4. apply()

Note: You may have to do some conversion of your data (i.e. tostring(), touniformstring(), tointeger(), etc...). Hope this helps.

RE: how to add spaces in appian

kaushikr276 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:56:55 GMT

@philb yes, i have gone through it

RE: how to add spaces in appian

kaushikr276 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:55:25 GMT

@sridevik there are certain sections where there are large number of fields which belongs to single section and i can't categories them into multiple sections, so there i have added null fields to visually separate them. So i am looking for any other solution apart from blank text fields.

RE: how to add spaces in appian

PhilB — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:39:56 GMT

Have you checked out the Style Guide? docs.appian.com/.../Style_Guide.html

RE: how to add spaces in appian

sridevik7401 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:16:17 GMT

@kaushikr276...AFAIK,whenever there is large amount of data its better to go for multiple sections which provides better visual experience or else use conditional components.