This tutorial is for the new, online project designer. The tutorial for the Desktop Designer is available
here
.
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 .
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.
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.
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This allows you to select an item(s) that will be selected by default when a new session is created on a mobile device.
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;
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.
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.
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
.
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.