Form values

Form values determine how a drop-down form property is used. You can also use form values to include help text to help the user understand what is being asked for with a specific form property.

You enter these attributes in the Form values column of the form property.

Drop-down form

ID Description
defaultFromResource

Determines the default value.

Possible values:

  • true: The default value is the ID of the currently displayed resource.
  • false: The default value is not the ID of the currently displayed resource.
multiValue

Determines if the user can enter multiple values.

Possible values:

  • true: The user can enter multiple values.
  • false: The user cannot enter multiple values. This is the default setting.
proposedFixed

Determines if the user can select other values than the suggested ones.

Possible values:

  • true: The user cannot enter other values than the suggested ones.
  • false: The user can enter other values than the suggested ones.
proposedValues

Determines which values are suggested to the user.

Possible values: resource IDs

Asset drop-down form

You can restrict the assets that will appear in a drop-down list based on the communities or domains to which the assets belong and the status of the assets.

ID Description
communityId Restricts the assets to those that belong to specific communities, as determined by the community ID(s) you enter.
conceptType Determines the asset types of the values in the drop-down list. The Name field contains the ID of an asset type. The drop-down values are all of the type of the provided asset type ID or of its subtypes.
domainId

Restricts the assets to those that belong to specific domains, as determined by the domain ID(s) you enter.
statusId

Restricts the assets to those that have specific statuses, as determined by the status ID(s) you enter.

Example:

Help text

ID Description
helpText

Displays help text directly below the form property.

Free text, including:

  • Maximum of 255 characters, with special characters.
  • Simple HTML styling (no JavaScript).
  • Hyperlinks.

Applicable to all form property types except the following:

  • enumeration
  • checkbox
  • radio button

Note Although not applicable to the three aforementioned static property types, it is applicable to the dynamic equivalents: dynamicEnum, dynamicCheckbox and dynamicRadiobox.