Radio button script component
Radio buttons allow the user to select one option from a set of choices.
- Click Radio Button on the component toolbar.
- Change the Text property to replace “Label” with a better description. To optionally embed the value of a variable, click Create New Variable .
- To add more radio buttons to the page, repeat steps 1 and 2.
- With a radio button selected, click Advanced. Below Value, select a string variable. When the user clicks this button at run time, the variable stores a unique value. If necessary, click Create New Variable to define a new variable.Note: Assign the same Value variable to all radio buttons in a set.
- Type a unique string in the Selected Value Text box. This text indicates the selection made by the agent.
- Optionally, assign an action to run when an agent clicks the radio button. On the Advanced tab, under Change Action, click No Action Selected.Note: Change actions assigned to radio buttons run every time that the value of the variable assigned to the radio button changes. For example, if four radio buttons are part of a set that is associated with the same variable, then all four change actions attempt to run every time an agent selects any of the four buttons in the set. Therefore, we recommend using custom actions with radio buttons instead of assigning a different change action to each radio button.
- Optionally, set other properties.
Common
Font settings modify the visual appearance of text. Change the font face and size. Apply bold, italics, or underlining in any combination. Justify the alignment of text within a surrounding container.
Sets text color to one of the following:
Sets background or text color to one of the following:
- Default—Assigns the default color.
- Color—Allows you to select from a palette of common colors, or choose your own by entering RGB values or by moving the color picker to a new spectrum position. Setting the color for text and background is a property in the Appearance panel. This property panel is only available for components that have the color functionality.
- Variable—assigns a color stored in a string variable. Variable example: To assign dark blue:
- Click the Variables tab.
- Click Add Variable to add a variable.
- Select String as the type of value the new variable stores.
- Type a descriptive name in the Name box.
- Set Default Value to 0000FF or #0000FF—which is the hexadecimal code for dark blue.
- Click Apply.
- Assign the variable to this color property.
Change the background color of a script page
To set the background color of an entire page, assign a background color to its root vertical container.
- In the breadcrumbs bar, click the root container icon.
- Under Common or Appearance, assign a different Background color.
Several components have a Text property that you can change, usually by double-clicking the component in design mode:
Button—double-click to rename "Submit" to something else.
Radio button or Checkbox—double-click to change "Label" to a more descriptive name.
- Read-only text—to change the text displayed in a read-only text component, click the component, then type text in the box.
The Value property binds a component to the variable selected. For example, if you bind a text input component to a variable, the input box will always display the value of that variable, ignoring any placeholder text specified. The variable is automatically updated with text typed by the user, subject to validation processing.
Other controls, radio buttons for example, use Value with a Selected Value Text setting. When the radio button is selected at runtime, its "Selected Value Text" becomes the new value of the variable. This way, each radio button can assign a different value to same variable.
When a calendar control is bound to the variable, its value is set to the date selected by the control. Since variables can preset the value of visual controls and also be set by them, binding is a powerful and often-used technique.
Text configured in the Selected Value property will be assigned to a bound Value string variable when a radio button is selected. The bound variable is configured using the Value setting.
Layout
Configures width to a fixed size, to grow as needed to display content, or to consume as much space as possible relative to other components, using weighting to influence size adjustments.
- Auto-sizing configures the component to shrink or grow in accordance with its contents. For example, the width of a label can grow depending up on how much text it contains.
- Stretch allows a component to consume as much space as possible relative to other components, using weighting to influence size adjustments.Note: If two components are both set to stretch, they are both allocated 50% of the remaining space by default. This proportion can be adjusted by changing the weight value. For example, if you set one component to a weight of 200, and the other to a weight of 100, then the first component occupies two thirds of the remaining space, while the other only takes one third. The first component appears twice the size of the other component, since its weight was two times the second component's weight.
- px sets a fixed size in pixels. You can type an integer value into the box, or use up or down arrows to increment or decrement size. These arrows are visible when the component has focus.
Configures height to a fixed size, to grow as needed to display content, or to consume as much space as possible relative to other components, using weighting to influence size adjustments.
- Auto-sizing configures the component to shrink or grow in accordance with its contents. For example, the width of a label can grow depending up on how much text it contains.
- Stretch allows a component to consume as much space as possible relative to other components, using weighting to influence size adjustments.Note: If two components are both set to stretch, they are both allocated 50% of the remaining space by default. This proportion can be adjusted by changing the weight value. For example, if you set one component to a weight of 200, and the other to a weight of 100, then the first component occupies two thirds of the remaining space, while the other only takes one third. The first component appears twice the size of the other component, since its weight was two times the second component's weight.
- px sets a fixed size in pixels. You can type an integer value into the box, or use up or down arrows to increment or decrement size. These arrows are visible when the component has focus.
Aligns a component to the left, right, or center, relative to its parent container.
Auto Sizing. To correct this, set the parent container's Height to Stretch or to a fixed height in Pixels.Margins set left, right, top, and bottom spacing around a border.
- Click the value field for a margin. A spin control appears in that field.
- Use the spin control to increase or decrease the margin.
- To update all margin values at once, click the Set All button for Margin in the properties panel.
The Visible property sets the visibility of a component based on the value of a Boolean (True or False) variable or an expression.
To set the Visible property based on a variable:
- Click the Layout property group in the Properties panel.
- Under Visible, click Select Variable.
- Select a variable, or optionally create a new Yes/No variable and then assign that new variable to the Visible property.
- At runtime, the component is visible when the value of the variable is True. Conversely it is hidden when the variable's value is False.
To set the Visible property based on an expression:
- Click the Layout property group in the Properties panel.
- Under Visible, select True/False Expression.
- In the Insert Variable box, enter an expression .
At runtime, the component is visible when the expression is True. The component is hidden when the expression is False.
Advanced
The Value property binds a component to the variable selected. For example, if you bind a text input component to a variable, the input box will always display the value of that variable, ignoring any placeholder text specified. The variable is automatically updated with text typed by the user, subject to validation processing.
Other controls, radio buttons for example, use Value with a Selected Value Text setting. When the radio button is selected at runtime, its "Selected Value Text" becomes the new value of the variable. This way, each radio button can assign a different value to same variable.
When a calendar control is bound to the variable, its value is set to the date selected by the control. Since variables can preset the value of visual controls and also be set by them, binding is a powerful and often-used technique.
Text configured in the Selected Value property will be assigned to a bound Value string variable when a radio button is selected. The bound variable is configured using the Value setting.
All components are enabled by default. The Disabled property binds a True/False variable to a component, to disable or enable it based on the runtime value of the variable.
- To create a True/False variable, click the Variables tab.
- Click Add to add a variable.
- Select True/False as the data type.
- In the Name box, type a descriptive name.
- Set Default Value to True or False.
- If the variable is True, then the component is disabled.
- If the variable is False, then the component is enabled.
- To save the variable, click Apply.
- Assign the variable to the Disabled property. Below Disabled, click Select Variable.
- Select the True/False variable.
To test your work, click Preview.
The Change Action property allows you to set an action that executes when the state or value of this component is changed.
You can select a Scripter action, an Outbound Action, or a custom action. Outbound actions are not available unless the Outbound property is enabled.
Appearance
Font settings modify the visual appearance of text. Change the font face and size. Apply bold, italics, or underlining in any combination. Justify the alignment of text within a surrounding container.
Sets text color to one of the following:
Sets background or text color to one of the following:
- Default—Assigns the default color.
- Color—Allows you to select from a palette of common colors, or choose your own by entering RGB values or by moving the color picker to a new spectrum position. Setting the color for text and background is a property in the Appearance panel. This property panel is only available for components that have the color functionality.
- Variable—assigns a color stored in a string variable. Variable example: To assign dark blue:
- Click the Variables tab.
- Click Add Variable to add a variable.
- Select String as the type of value the new variable stores.
- Type a descriptive name in the Name box.
- Set Default Value to 0000FF or #0000FF—which is the hexadecimal code for dark blue.
- Click Apply.
- Assign the variable to this color property.
Change the background color of a script page
To set the background color of an entire page, assign a background color to its root vertical container.
- In the breadcrumbs bar, click the root container icon.
- Under Common or Appearance, assign a different Background color.
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