field creation based upon data type selected

RE: field creation based upon data type selected

vikrams192 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:10:46 GMT

Thank you Abhay for your help.

RE: field creation based upon data type selected

vikrams192 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:10:10 GMT

Thank you Ryland for your help.

RE: field creation based upon data type selected

Abhay Giri — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:43:02 GMT

Hi Vikram,

I have one question : "what you want to achieve by implementing this?" Are you trying to create interface at runtime?

If you can explore your requirement then it will be easy to people to provide a good solution here.

I am agree with Ryland Atkins (rylanda) way, you need to define set of different type of data input and based on selection you will be able to see input types. But according to his code, once you will select other data type , first one will disappear.

just look the quick apps : https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/18.2/Quick_Apps_Designer.html may be it will be use full for you.

Kindly let me know weather it helps you or you have still some doubt.

Regards

Abhay

RE: field creation based upon data type selected

Ryland Atkins — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:04:31 GMT

Hey vikram,

I looked into this and I think I understand what you're asking. Here's some boilerplate code that does what you're looking for.

a!formLayout(
label: "Boilerplate",
contents: {
a!sectionLayout(
contents: {
a!dropdownField(
label: "Dropdown",
labelPosition: "ABOVE",
placeholderLabel: "--- Select a Value ---",
choiceLabels: {"Integer", "Text", "Date"},
choiceValues: {"Integer", "Text", "Date"},
value: ri!dataType,
saveInto: ri!dataType
)
}
),
a!sectionLayout(
contents: {
a!integerField(
label: "Integer",
showWhen: ri!dataType = "Integer"
),
a!textField(
label: "Text",
showWhen: ri!dataType = "Text"
),
a!dateField(
label: "Date",
showWhen: ri!dataType = "Date"
)
}
)
}
)

When you select any of the choices in the dropdown, the corresponding fields will appear and disappear as necessary.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Ryland