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# COMBOFIX

The COMBOFIX control is a selection control. Depending on its configuration, it is either displayed as a combo box or as a selection list.

The COMBOFIX control allows specifying a defined set of values which can be selected. This set of values is defined as part of the layout definition - it cannot be controlled dynamically by the application.

Note
If you want to use dynamic selection, there are two possibilities. Either use the COMBODYN control which has the same look and feel as the COMBOFIX control, but where the selectable values are not specified as part of the page definition and are controlled by the application. Or use the value help pop-up dialogs.

The following topics are covered below:

- COMBOFIX Properties

- COMBOOPTION Properties

## COMBOFIX Properties

Basic
valueprop | Name of the adapter parameter that provides the content of the control. | Obligatory |
width | Width of the control. There are three possibilities to define the width: (A) You do not define a width at all. In this case the width of the control will either be a default width or - in case of container controls - it will follow the width that is occupied by its content. (B) Pixel sizing: just input a number value (e.g. "100"). (C) Percentage sizing: input a percentage value (e.g. "50%"). Pay attention: percentage sizing will only bring up correct results if the parent element of the control properly defines a width this control can reference. If you specify this control to have a width of 50% then the parent element (e.g. an ITR-row) may itself define a width of "100%". If the parent element does not specify a width then the rendering result may not represent what you expect. | Optional | 100 120 140 160 180 200 50% 100%
comment | Comment without any effect on rendering and behaviour. The comment is shown in the layout editor's tree view. | Optional |
Appearance
width | (already explained above) |  |
size | Number of rows that are displayed inside the control. If specified as "1" (default) then the control is rendered as combo box - if ">1" then the control is rendered as multi line selection. | Optional |
displayonly | If set to true, the FIELD will not be accessible for input. It is just used as an output field. | Optional |
direction | Presets the default(BiDi) direction of the control. Use black string in order to have the default value. | Optional | rtl ltr
align | Horizontal alignment of control in its column. Each control is "packaged" into a column. The column itself is part of a row (e.g. ITR or TR). Sometimes the size of the column is bigger than the size of the control itself. In this case the "align" property specifies the position of the control inside the column. In most cases you do not require the align control to be explicitly defined because the size of the column around the controls exactly is sized in the same way as the contained control. If you want to directly control the alignment of text: in most text based controls there is an explicit property "textalign" in which you align the control's contained text. | Optional | left center right
valign | Vertical alignment of control in its column. Each control is "packaged" into a column. The column itself is part of a row (e.g. ITR or TR). Sometimes the size of the column is bigger than the size of the control. In this case the "align" property specify the position of the control inside the column. | Optional | top middle bottom
colspan | Column spanning of control. If you use TR table rows then you may sometimes want to control the number of columns your control occupies. By default it is "1" - but you may want to define the control to span over more than one columns. The property only makes sense in table rows that are synchronized within one container (i.e. TR, STR table rows). It does not make sense in ITR rows, because these rows are explicitly not synched. | Optional | 1 2 3 4 5 50 int-value
rowspan | Row spanning of control. If you use TR table rows then you may sometimes want to control the number of rows your control occupies. By default it is "1" - but you may want to define the control to span over more than one columns. The property only makes sense in table rows that are synchronized within one container (i.e. TR, STR table rows). It does not make sense in ITR rows, because these rows are explicitly not synched. | Optional | 1 2 3 4 5 50 int-value
combostyle | CSS style definition that is directly passed into this control. With the style you can individually influence the rendering of the control. You can specify any style sheet expressions. Examples are: border: 1px solid #FF0000 background-color: #808080 You can combine expressions by appending and separating them with a semicolon. Sometimes it is useful to have a look into the generated HTML code in order to know where direct style definitions are applied. Press right mouse-button in your browser and select the "View source" or "View frame's source" function. | Optional |
invisiblemode | If the visibility of the control is determined dynamically by an adapter property then there are two rendering modes if the visibility is "false": (1) "invisible": the control is not visible. (2)"cleared": the control is not visible but it still occupies space. | Optional | invisible cleared
tabindex | Index that defines the tab order of the control. Controls are selected in increasing index order and in source order to resolve duplicates. | Optional | -1 0 1 2 5 10 32767
datatype | By default, the control is managing its content as string. By explicitly setting a datatype you can define that the control will format the data coming from the server: if the field has datatype "date" and the user inputs "010304" then the input will be translated into "01.03.2004" (or other representation, dependent on date format settings). Please note: the datatype "float" is named a bit misleading - it represents any decimal format number. The server side representation may be a float value, but also can be a double or a BigDecimal property. | Optional | xs:string ------------------------ N n.n P n.n string n
Binding
valueprop | (already explained above) |  |
displayprop | Name of the adapter parameter that dynamically passes information whether the field is displayonly("true") or not ("false"). Notice that in the Natural code the type for the field is alphanumeric. | Optional |
statusprop | Name of the adapter parameter that dynamically passes information how the control should be rendered and how it should act. Valid parameter values at runtime: "INVISIBLE", "FOCUS", "FOCUS_NO_SELECT", "ERROR", "ERROR_NO_FOCUS". In responsive controls additionally the values "WARNING" and "SUCCESS" are supported. The value "INVISIBLE" is only supported if the control does not support an INVISIBLEPROP. Use DISPLAYPROP or VISIBLEPROP if available to render the control displayonly/invisible/cleared. | Optional |
flush | Flushing behaviour of the input control. By default an input into the control is registered within the browser client - and communicated to the server adapter object when a user e.g. presses a button. By using the FLUSH property you can change this behaviour. Setting FLUSH to "server" means that directly after changing the input a synchronization with the server adapter is triggered. As consequence you directly can react inside your adapter logic onto the change of the corresponding value. - Please be aware of that during the synchronization always all changed properties - also the ones that were changed before - are transferred to the adapter object, not only the one that triggered the synchonization. Setting FLUSH to "screen" means that the changed value is populated inside the page. You use this option if you have redundant usage of the same property inside one page and if you want to pass one changed value to all its representation directly after changing the value. | Optional | screen server
flushmethod | When the data synchronization of the control is set to FLUSH="server" then you can specify an explicit event to be sent when the user updates the content of the control. By doing so you can distinguish on the server side from which control the flush of data was triggered. | Optional |
Online Help
helpid | Help id that is passed to the online help management in case the user presses F1 on the control. | Optional |
title | Text that is shown as tooltip for the control. Either specify the text "hard" by using this TITLE property - or use the TITLETEXTID in order to define a language dependent literal. | Optional |
Miscellaneous
testtoolid | Use this attribute to assign a fixed control identifier that can be later on used within your test tool in order to do the object identification | Optional |

## COMBOOPTION Properties

Basic
name | Name that is displayed as selectable option. Either use the NAME property to specify the text in a "hard" way or use the TEXTID property to define the text in a language dependent way. | Optional |
textid | Text ID that is used for this option. The text id is passed to the multi language management in order to find a language dependent text. | Optional |
value | Actual value of the option that is passed into the adapter property specified by VALUEPROP inside the COMBOFIX control. | Optional |
comment | Comment without any effect on rendering and behaviour. The comment is shown in the layout editor's tree view. | Optional |

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- COMBOFIX Properties
- COMBOOPTION Properties