View general properties
General property | Description |
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Label | Sets the display name of the view. The location of the label depends
on the view type and whether that location has been overridden by CSS coding. The default value is
the name of the view. Restriction:
When you place the view in a table, the label of the view cannot
use references to entities within a list, such as
currentItem or
selectedItem . |
Help | Provides an area in which you can provide hover help for the view instance. |
Control ID | Provides an identifier that you can use in JavaScript to access this particular view instance. The Control ID is also known as the view ID in the API documentation. |
Binding | Sets the business object that is associated with this view instance |
View | Sets the view definition that the view instance uses. When you change this property, you change the type of the view, and the configuration properties that you previously set no longer apply. |
Label Visibility | Sets whether users can see the label at run time. For example, you
might want to have a Text Area view display a large description with no accompanying label. The
values are Show (default) and Hide. For
example, you can use a variable to dynamically change the visibility according to various
conditions. If you use a variable to set the visibility, the variable must be a string with one of
the following values: |
Base Text Direction | Sets the direction of the text that is displayed by the view, such as
label text, text values, and other text that the user sees. The Base Text Direction property is available only if you enable the Base Text Direction preference. For information, see Adding bidirectional language support. The default value is Default, which means the view uses the text direction that is set in the user's profile. When you set the text direction to Left to Right or Right to Left, the text is locked to the specified direction. When you set the text direction to Contextual, the first strong directional character in a string determines its text direction. This rule applies to all text elements that a view displays. For example, a Text view has an Arabic label, but its field contents are English. In this case, the text in the label is from right to left although the text in the field is from left to right. |