Is it possible to user richtextfield control inside gridlayout header?

Question

Hello All, 
 
 I have a requirement to display grid header cell in some specific format, So just wanted to know if we can use richtextfield control inside gridlayout field or not? If yes, Then how and if no then do we have any alternatives for it?

santhoshs · Accepted Answer

RichTextField Cannot be used in header cells but there is a work around to achieve it. Leave the actual header cells as empty and make a static rowlayout to give headers for the grid using richtextfield inside the rowlayout. You can have additional row layouts for the grid values. But here the disadvantage is you will see a blank header on the first row of the grid. 
 Example Code: 
 a!gridLayout(headerCells:{a!gridLayoutHeaderCell( 
 label:"" 
 ), 
 a!gridLayoutHeaderCell( 
 label:"" 
 )}, 
 rows:{ 
 a!gridRowLayout( 
 contents:{a!richTextDisplayField( 
 value:a!richTextItem(text:"Name",style:"STRONG") 
 ), 
 a!richTextDisplayField( 
 value:a!richTextItem(text:"Address",style:"STRONG") 
 )} 
 ), 
 a!gridRowLayout( 
 contents:{a!textField( 
 value:"Test Name" 
 ), 
 a!textField( 
 value:"Test Address" 
 )} 
 ) 
 } 
 )

Nandhavi Nandakumar · Answer

In the same code which santhoshs has provided, we can configure the borderStyle parameter of the gridLayout component to LIGHT . The header cells will no longer be visible, and also the table will have a border only between each row. 
 a!gridLayout(
 borderStyle: "LIGHT",
 headerCells: {
 a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(
 label: ""
 ),
 a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(
 label: ""
 )
 },
 rows: {
 a!gridRowLayout(
 contents: {
 a!richTextDisplayField(
 value: a!richTextItem(
 text: "Name",
 style: "STRONG"
 )
 ),
 a!richTextDisplayField(
 value: a!richTextItem(
 text: "Address",
 style: "STRONG"
 )
 )
 }
 ),
 a!gridRowLayout(
 contents: {
 a!textField(
 value: "Test Name"
 ),
 a!textField(
 value: "Test Address"
 )
 }
 )
 }
)

yeswanththiyarir · Answer

Hi vivek, 
We cannot do that in the current version of appian, might be possible in future updates.You can use editable grid for now. I think editable grid supports rich text field. 
Thanks, 
Yeswanth.