- OperationLabels {} and Horizontal Parameters

OperationLabels {}

This property group allows you to specify how to organize the search parameters and prompts.

By default, when a Field Descriptor is set to Required and has a null value returned for the Possible Value, the value that displays in the possible value dropdown is " -- Choose -- ". The property dropDownItemDisplay can be used to change the text that displays like the following:

OperationLabels{dropDownItemDisplay: -- Choose Shipping Method -- ;}

The value in the dropdown would now read " -- Choose Shipping Method -- " instead of " -- Choose -- ". This can also be done with other values than NULL, but requires the dropDownItemValue property as well to define which actual value is changed for the dropDownItemDisplay value.

TAGS: Prompting customization, instructions, search, parameters, search labels

Horizontal Parameters

An example of one way to use the OperationLabels{} property group is horizontal parameters.

It allows you to specify the order and number of search prompts on each row. To setup

horizontal parameters, you must first specify the parameters JSP with:

/dataengine/jsp/horizontal_gen_params.jsp as shown below.

Here is a screenshot of horizontal parameters with 4 fields horizontally:

OperationLabels{searchDisplay:4;}

Here is a screenshot of horizontal parameters with specified fields:

OperationLabels{searchDisplay: workdept,lastname,empno|phoneno;}