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Introduction

The text widget displays a text which can contain parameters if necessary. Every attribute is replaced with the value of this attribute. For example, you can show a greeting message to a user by placing a text widget in a data view and adding parameters to it.

If you start typing in any empty container, Studio Pro will automatically generate a text widget to display your text.

Properties

An example of text properties is represented in the image below:

Text properties consist of the following sections:

• Common
• Design Properties
• General
• Visibility

Common Section

Design Properties Section

General Section

Caption

Caption defines a text that will be shown. The caption can contain parameters that are written between braces, for example, {1}.

For more information on using parameters, see the Parameters section below.

Parameters

Parameters are attributes the value of which will be displayed. To view Parameters, do one of the following:

• Double-click the Caption setting in properties

• Double-click the text widget on the page and click Edit in the General section > Caption:

  

Parameters have the following settings:

• Index – an identification number of a parameter

• Attribute (path) – an attribute a value of which will be displayed

• Format – a format in which an attribute value will be displayed

  

Adding New Parameters

To use parameters, do the following:

1. Place the Text widget in a context of an entity, as in, inside a data widget.

2. Double-click the Caption setting in the text widget properties.

3. In the Edit Caption dialog box > Parameters section click New:

   

4. In the Edit Template Parameter dialog box, click Select, choose an attribute and confirm your choice.

5. In the Caption setting, write the text you would like to display and type Index of the parameter you would like to include. In the example below, to include a full name of your customer and a number of unread messages, you need to use indexes {1} for the FullName attribute, and {2} for the NrOfUnread attribute:

   

Performing Other Actions on Parameters

In addition to adding new parameters, you can perform the following actions on parameters:

• Delete – to delete a parameter click Delete or press Delete on your keyboard

• Edit – double-click a parameter to edit it or click Edit

• Move up – to move a parameter up in the list of parameters and also to change its index, click Move up

• Move down – to move a parameter down in the list of parameters and also to change its index, click Move down

  

Render Mode

The render mode determines how the text will be displayed.

Visibility Section

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