Using text as italics in a dropdown field

ghanashyamm0004 over 2 years ago

Hi Folks,

Is there a way to show the value in a dropdown in italics?

Regards,

Ghanashyam

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Stefan Helzle over 1 year ago in reply to Komal Jain +2
Certified Lead Developer

Using unicode characters to simulate font styling is a neat idea! Thanks a lot for sharing. BTW, there is no need to beat such a simple problem using a foreach. a!localVariables( local!commonvalue…
Stefan Helzle over 2 years ago in reply to ghanashyamm0004 +1
Certified Lead Developer

Got it. I would like to refer to what Mike Schmitt already said a few times. A requirement is about functionality, but not about the looks. Why do these need to be italic? Should the user prefer to select…
Stewart Burchell over 1 year ago in reply to Paolo C +1
Appian Employee

There are other ways if you want to draw attention to specific items in the list...like the use of Unicode values for symbols...like as follows:

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0 Komal Jain
Certified Senior Developer
over 1 year ago

Hi Ghanashyam

Here is the solution

a!localVariables(
local!commonvalue: concat(
a!forEach(
items: {
10090/*(*/
,
119914/*C*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119950/*m*/
,
119950/*m*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119951/*n*/
,
119949/*l*/
,
119962/*y*/
,
32/* */
,
119932/*U*/
,
119956/*s*/
,
119942/*e*/
,
119941/*d*/
,
32/* */
,
119920/*I*/
,
119940/*c*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119951/*n*/
,
10091/*)*/

},
expression: char(fv!item)
)
),
local!choicelabel: {
"Series 23- GP (Principal)",
"Series 26-IP (Principal)",
concat("Series 3 - NFA ", local!commonvalue)
},
local!value,
a!dropdownField(
label: "Field",
choiceLabels: local!choicelabel,
choiceValues: local!choicelabel,
placeholder: "--Select--",
value: local!value,
saveInto: local!value
)
)

You can concat local!commonvalue to any of you choice label and make a common rule so that its easy to be used any time
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0 Komal Jain
Certified Senior Developer
over 1 year ago

Hi Ghanashyam

Here is the solution

a!localVariables(
local!commonvalue: concat(
a!forEach(
items: {
10090/*(*/
,
119914/*C*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119950/*m*/
,
119950/*m*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119951/*n*/
,
119949/*l*/
,
119962/*y*/
,
32/* */
,
119932/*U*/
,
119956/*s*/
,
119942/*e*/
,
119941/*d*/
,
32/* */
,
119920/*I*/
,
119940/*c*/
,
119952/*o*/
,
119951/*n*/
,
10091/*)*/

},
expression: char(fv!item)
)
),
local!choicelabel: {
"Series 23- GP (Principal)",
"Series 26-IP (Principal)",
concat("Series 3 - NFA ", local!commonvalue)
},
local!value,
a!dropdownField(
label: "Field",
choiceLabels: local!choicelabel,
choiceValues: local!choicelabel,
placeholder: "--Select--",
value: local!value,
saveInto: local!value
)
)

You can concat local!commonvalue to any of you choice label and make a common rule so that its easy to be used any time
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0 Stefan Helzle

Certified Lead Developer

over 1 year ago in reply to Komal Jain

Using unicode characters to simulate font styling is a neat idea! Thanks a lot for sharing.

BTW, there is no need to beat such a simple problem using a foreach.

a!localVariables(
  local!commonvalue: joinarray(
    char(
      {
        10090,
        119914,
        119952,
        119950,
        119950,
        119952,
        119951,
        119949,
        119962,
        32,
        119932,
        119956,
        119942,
        119941,
        32,
        119920,
        119940,
        119952,
        119951,
        10091
      }
    ),
    ""
  ),
  local!choicelabel: {
    "Series 23- GP (Principal)",
    "Series 26-IP (Principal)",
    concat("Series 3 - NFA ", local!commonvalue)
  },
  local!value,
  a!dropdownField(
    label: "Field",
    choiceLabels: local!choicelabel,
    choiceValues: local!choicelabel,
    placeholder: "--Select--",
    value: local!value,
    saveInto: local!value
  )
)