Element properties - "Binding" tab

Applications module Edit field or view field Properties

1. Control type

Select the desired control type here.

Data type: String

• Text
  Formats the content according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Email
  Can be used for data fields that contain email addresses. The content is formatted as a link. Clicking on the link opens the standard mail client and automatically adds the email address as the recipient's address.
• URL
  Can be used for data fields that contain a URL. The content is formatted as a link. Clicking on the link opens the default browser and automatically loads the corresponding page.
• Phone
  The content is shown as a link that can be used to send an SMS or establish a telephone connection with automatic phone number entry. The corresponding settings can be made on the Options tab.
• Web application
  The content is transformed into a link to web applications. On the Options tab, parameters, e.g. target, can be assigned.
• Image URL
  Displays the image that the URL leads to according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Color
  The surface of the view field is filled with the color that is specified as a hexadecimal in the connected data field.
• Video
  This control types enables you to embed videos from the portals YouTube, "Vimeo" and "myVideo" based on the URL, as well as a range of video file formats, images and typical URLs. Supported formats for videos: swf, mp4, ogg, ogv, oga, ogx, webm, mkv, mov. For images: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp.

Data type: Integer

• Integer
  The number is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• User information
  Can be used with data fields that contain the user ID. The view field displays additional user information according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Tree path
  The tree path is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.

Data type: Double

• Floating point number
  The number is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Currency
  The number is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.

Data type: Date/time

• Date
  The date is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Time
  The time is formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.
• Date & time
  The date and time are formatted according to the settings made on the Options tab.

Information about control types that can only be used in view tables can be found here.

2. Displayed value

Here, you can define which value of the current element should be displayed.

2.1. Static

The element displays the defined default values.

2.2. Data field

Data field

Select the desired data field. Data fields from parent data groups are shown in italics.

Select a data field from a parent data group
Opens a dialog where a data field from a parent data group can be selected.

2.3. Session / Request / Processing context

Variable

In each case, enter the name of the request, session variable or variable from the processing context, whose value should be displayed.

2.4. User

Value

A data field from the User Manager can be selected as the displayed value.

2.5. System data group

Application

Select the application that contains the system data group.

Data field

Select the corresponding data field.

2.6. Parameter

Parameter

The parameters that the page requires can be selected here.

2.7. Other

Value

Custom bindings can be entered here. A binding consists of at least one BindingEntry that is denoted as follows:

bindingtyp['bindingvalue']

Multiple BindingEntries can be linked together with periods, such as

bindingtyp['bindingvalue'].bindingtyp2['bindingvalue2']

From the second BindingEntry onwards, you can also use single value BindingEntries, such as

bindingtyp['bindingvalue'].primaryKey

3. Default

Default values are used if the binding does not return a value. For checkboxes, the settings for the default values are not on the "Binding" tab but on the "Options" tab.

For new data records / For existing data records

With these settings, default values can be defined for new or existing data records, respectively.

Edit default value
Opens a dialog in each case where the default value can be defined.

Apply default value
Transfer the respective defined default value to the other setting.