Text Input

This page describes how to set up and configure the Text Input component .

The Text Input component offers a means to make the user’s input available to dashboard components. The input can be text, dates, hex colors, etc.

Any dashboard component setting showing an eye icon Screenshot can be set to a View State Parameter connected to a Text Input.

Set up Text Input

To set up a Text Input component, click-and-drag the component into the workspace and configure the following:

  1. Assign a view state parameter to text for entering a value.

Refer to Text Input properties described in the next section for details on additional properties.

Text Input properties

The following sections provides details on how to configure the properties of the Text Input component.

Basics

Open the Basics properties on the right and configure the properties described in the following table.

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Field

Description

Name

Enter a name for the component.

Text

Text typed by the user.

Warning

Validating user input

There is no provision for a callback to validate the content of this field. Consider using a Text component to advise the user what to type.

Input Type

Select from text, search or multiline.

 

Fixed Width/Width

 

Fixed Height/Height

When Fixed Width is checked, the component width is set in Width and is defined in pixels.

 

When Fixed Height is checked, the component height is set in Height and is defined in pixels.

Horizontal/Vertical

Set the respective alignments of the text within the component.

Font Size

Set the font size in pixels.

Action

Refer to Actions for details.

Style, Margins, Format

Refer to Style for common styling parameters.

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