FormatString

This widget adds a user-defined string to your page, taking object attributes as input parameters.

Contributing

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Typical usage scenario

Displaying multiple attributes as a single string

Installation

Import the widget to your project and add the Format String to a dataview on a page. Configure the properties to determine how the widget will behave in your application.

Features and limitations

• Supports multiple attributes
• Attributes can be retrieved one-deep
• Setting the same attribute multiple times using different date/time formatting is not supported.

Properties

• Display as - Lets you set the HTML element type to be rendered,
  or read-only . If rendered as HTML, the Display string is interpreted as literal HTML.
• On click - A microflow that is to be executed on click.
• Display string - The template string that should be displayed.
• Empty value replacement - This string is used for the replace whenever the attribute is found empty.
• Attributes - The list of attributes and their indentiefiers to be used in the Display string property of this widget.
• Datetime format - Renders datetime attribute as date and/or time. Relative will render the date relative to current datetime.
• Date pattern - Overrides the date part with the dojo/data/locale pattern specified. (e.g MMMM d, 'in the year' yyyy GGGG)
• Time pattern - Overrides the time part with the dojo/data/locale pattern specified. (e.g h:m:s.SSS a z)
• Decimal Precision - The number of decimals to display.
• Group Digits - Displays separator character in case of a number datatype