Creating a Forms widget

  1. On the Pages > Drafts page, click New.
  2. On the Select Template page, select Forms Widget.
  3. In the Configure Page > Template Settings section, select the elements to add to the widget.
    1. In the Widget section, specify the title and the subtitle.
    2. In the Dropdown > Show label field, switch on this option to show the drop-down field label.
    3. In the Textbox sections, specify this information.
      Show component
      Switch on this option to show the text box component.
      Read only
      Switch on this option to set the text box component as read only.
      Show label
      Switch on this option to show the text box component label.
    4. In the Button section, specify this information.
      Show component
      Switch on this option to show the button component.
      Style
      Select the style of the button.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Specify the page properties and assign data services.
  6. Click Next.
  7. On the New Page page, perform these steps:
    1. In the Elements section, select a form element.
    2. In the Data Properties section, select the bound property.
      Optionally, change the bound property value.
    3. Optionally, in the Attributes section, change the settings.
    4. In the Strings section, specify a static text or select a global string value for the label and content of the form element.
    5. In the Context Message section, set up the context message for the receiving component, sending component, or both.
  8. Click Finish.
  9. Optionally, in the Page Saved dialog box, select the Deploy this version to Portal catalog check box.
  10. Click Publish or Later.

If you publish the widget, the widget is automatically added to the list of projects on the Published page. If you select the deploy option, the widget is directly deployed to the Widget Catalog.

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