Configuring a table component

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After you add a table component to a Dialog Designer, you can configure the table by clicking Edit. You can add rows, columns, and mappings for the table.

About this task

You can add up to 11 columns for a table. A column type can be Label, Text box, or Drop-down.

Procedure

To configure a table component, complete the following steps:

  1. Add a table to an activity definition.
  2. In the Properties pane, click the Edit link for Configuration.
  3. Specify the Column header, and select the Column width.

    Column names are case-sensitive. You cannot give the same name to two columns. You cannot add duplicate columns. The minimum column width is 25 pixels and the maximum is 250 pixels.

  4. You can select the check boxes to make the column Searchable, Sortable, and Mandatory.

    When you select Mandatory, a red * is displayed for those columns during the processing of the activity. A Label type column cannot be made mandatory. A Text type column cannot be made sortable. A Drop-down type column cannot be made searchable and sortable.

  5. Select the Column type from Label, Text box, or Drop-down.

    A label column can be made searchable and sortable. A text box column can be made searchable and mandatory. A drop-down column can be made mandatory.

    For a Drop-down type column, you can specify pipe-separated (|) values. When pipe-separated values are specified for static data, the values are displayed as multiple, drop-down values. However, the pipe-separated values that are specified for dynamic data are displayed as a single value. For example, if a "x|y|z" is specified for dynamic data, the value that is seen in the drop-down is a single entry of "x,y,z".

  6. If you select a Text box type of column, you can specify the Regex for the column.

    Regex is the regular expression against which a value that is entered by a user is validated. Therefore, it can be used only for a Text type column.

  7. Specify the Tooltip for the column to help users understand what the column is and what must be entered in the column during the processing of the activity.
  8. Click Add to add more rows.

    If you added more than five columns, two pages are displayed in the dialog designer. The column header is a mandatory field. If you do not enter value for the column header, the validation error is displayed on the second page for the columns.

  9. To delete rows, select the check boxes of the columns and click Delete.
  10. Click Next.
  11. Define static or dynamic data.
  12. Click Finish.