Text Area is one of the generic HTML Form input elements. Unlike Text Field, Text Area has multi-row like interface interface for user to type in more information.
Figure 1: Sample Text Area
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Figure 2: Text Area Properties
| Name | Description |
| ID | Element ID (By declaring as "justification", a corresponding database table column "c_justification" will be created) |
| Label | Element Label to be displayed to end user. |
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| Value | Default Value when there's no existing value found. Hash variable is accepted here. For example, you may key the following
to pre-populate the field with current logged in user's name. | |||||||||||
| Validator | Attach a Validator plugin to validate the input value.
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| Cols | Column size. | |||||||||||
| Rows | Row size. | |||||||||||
| Readonly | Determines if the element is editable. | |||||||||||
| Display field as Label when readonly? | Displays the value of the element as plain text when element is set to "Readonly". | |||||||||||
| Workflow Variable | If the form is part of a workflow process, upon saving of the form (by clicking on "Save as Draft" or "Complete" button). The value in this input field will be saved into the corresponding workflow variable named here.
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