JSF Handler field properties

The following properties are meaningful for fields in a JSF handler.

Table 1. JSF handler field properties
Property Description
@SelectionList This complex property allows you to specify labels and values for a JSF selection list control.
action Identifies the code that EGL invokes when the user clicks the button or link in a web page.
bidiType Enables entry of bidirectional text in visual order.
bypassValidation Determines whether EGL skips its validation when the user clicks the button or link.
currency Indicates whether to include a currency symbol before the value in a numeric field.
displayName Specifies the label that is displayed, by default, next to the web-page field.
displayUse Associates an EGL field with a user-interface control, by default.
fillCharacter Specifies a character to fill unused positions in a field.
help Specifies the hover-help text that is displayed when the user places the cursor over the input field.
newWindow Indicates whether to use a new browser window when EGL presents a web page in response to the current activity.
numElementsItem for JSF Handlers or VGUI Records Identifies a field whose value specifies the number of array elements to display.
numericSeparator Specifies whether EGL places a separator character in a number that has an integer component of more than 3 digits.
onValueChangeFunction Identifies a function to be run each time a change occurs in the value of the field to which the property is assigned.
selectedRowItem Identifies a variable that holds the index (or indices) for the row (or rows) the user selects from a screen display.
selectedValueItem Identifies a variable that holds one or more values for one or more selected rows from a screen display.
selectFromListItem Identifies the array or DataTable column from which the user selects a value or values.
selectType Indicates the kind of value that is retrieved into an array or primitive field.
typeahead Indicates whether type-ahead is used on input controls bound to the field.
typeaheadFunction Identifies a function to produce a list of options to be used in type-ahead for input controls bound to the field.
validationOrder Indicates the order in which the field's validator function runs in relation to any other field's validator function.
zeroFormat Specifies how zero values are displayed in numeric fields (except in MONEY fields).

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