The displayUse property associates an EGL field
with a user-interface control. The value you assign is used as a default when
you place the field (or a record that includes the field) on the Web Page
in Page Designer.
Values are of the enumeration
displayUseKind:
- button
- The control has a button command tag
- secret
- The data is not visible to the user. This value is appropriate for passwords.
- hyperlink
- If the action property is the name of an event-handling function,
the control has a hyperlink command tag. If the action property is
a label, the control has a link tag. When the user clicks the link in either
case, no validation occurs and no input data is returned.
- input
- The control accepts user input. Initially, the control may display a value
provided by the PageHandler.
- table
- Data is within a table tag.
- output
- PageHandler field output, if any, is visible in the control.