This tutorial is for the new, online project designer. The tutorial for the Desktop Designer is available here .

Selection Point

Learn how the Selection point can be used and see it in action with the sample projects.

What is the Selection point?

The Selection point can be used to present a list of items on screen at the same time. This point is similar to the Drop List point but is more suitable for displaying a smaller list of items on the screen at the same time. The point can be configured to allow a single or multiple items to be selected. The items can be configured to display different text to the values that are stored in a session, using code-based items . This point is similar to the Drop List point except that the items are all displayed on screen at the same time. The point can be converted to a Drop List point at any time, using the conversion feature .

Key Features


Selection point animation

Configuration and Settings

The Selection point can be configured in the Mobile Data Anywhere Designer to set the data for the list of items and to choose how the point functions within a session on the mobile application. See below for details on each of this point's properties.


Selection point web properties

Selection Settings

Items

The items section allows you to create the list of options that will be presented to the user when a session is being created on the mobile application. The items editor window allows you to manually add, edit, delete, re-order items. To easily create multiple items you paste a list of text items or use the import button. When the code-based feature is enabled, the list will provide you with options for each item's value and display text. .


Selection items editor

Default Item(s)

This allows you to select an item(s) that will be selected by default when a new session is created on a mobile device.

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Multiple Selection

When disabled, the user will only be able to choose one item from the list to be saved to the session.

When enabled, this will allow users to choose multiple items from the list, to be saved to the session as a delimited list. Each selected item will be appended to the point's value with a ; separator, for example:

150; 300; 560;

Code-based

Can be used with either single or multiple selection types and is used to separate the stored values from the text that is displayed on screen. This can be useful for setting a numeric value for the point while displaying text to the user so that the numeric value can be used in a Math point's expression.

Convert to Drop List Point

A Selection point can easily be converted to a Drop List point which can be useful for displaying a smaller list of items on screen at the same time. This can be done by clicking the Convert to Drop List Point button. Similarly a Drop List point can be converted to a Selection point.

Setting a default value

A list item can be set as the default value from the point's page preview, in the Mobile Data Anywhere Designer. This can be done be selecting the item in the page preview for the point and then right clicking on the point's caption and selecting Save Default Value .


Sample Projects

The Basic Points Sample project contains examples of how to use many of the various points that are available. This project also contains a page that demonstrates some of the ways that this point can be used in your projects.


Sample Projects
You can download the sample project for this tutorial or import the projects directly into your account.