Input Types

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Last updated: Feb 19, 2016 by Will Wilson (Deactivated)
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Input Types

Text Box

Allows app user to only enter 1 (one) line of text into a text box

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA
  • Display Counterpart is ‘Short Text’
  • Accepts all characters, numbers, and symbols
  • Vertically aligned to center (will appear to be top-aligned on canvas)

 

Text Area

Allows app user to enter 1 (one) or more lines of text into a text area

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA
  • Display Counterpart is ‘Long Text’
  • Accepts all characters, numbers, and symbols
  • Vertically aligned to top

 

Dropdown

Allows app user to choose one (1) item from a list of one or more options.  The options are set either in the REST Wizard (REST AppBlocks) or on the AppBlock's Data Mapping page (all other AppBlocks).

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA 
  • Display counterpart is 'Short Text'.
  • Vertically aligned to center.

 

Check Box

Allows app user to check or uncheck.

  • Uses device's standard checkbox display.
  • No display counterpart.

 

Photo

Allows app user to tap on the area created on the canvas and take a new photo or choose an existing photo from the mobile device's camera roll.

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA
  • Display counterpart is 'Icon', 'Thumbnail', and 'Image'.
  • Once a photo has been taken/selected, it will be displayed in the app in the specified canvas area.

 

Date

Allows app user to choose a date, always including Month, Day, and Year.

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA
  • Display counterpart is 'Date'.
  • Vertically aligned to center.

 

Time

Allows app user to choose a time, always including Hour, Minute, and AM/PM.

  • Minimum Width – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Width – NA
  • Minimum Height – 88 pixels (High-Res)
  • Maximum Height - NA
  • Display counterpart is 'Time'.
  • Vertically aligned to center.

 

Date & Time

Allows app user to choose a date and time, always including Month, Day, Year, Hour, Minute, and AM/PM.

  • Display counterpart is 'Date & Time'

 

Hidden Field

Used in Component REST AppBlock, most commonly with an Input page that uses PUT.  For example, your app might have an employee directory section, and you want to allow the app user to update an employee.  To make the update, the REST server will need to know the employeeId of the person being updated, but you don't want the app user to change this value.  Mark the employeeId field as a "Hidden Field", and the field will get passed to the REST server without being edited by the app user.

  • Cannot be added to canvas.