Basic Widget Configuration

The Basic widget configuration includes the widget type, title and other fields that are relevant for the selected widget type.

Depending on the widget type, different configuration fields will be presented from the following list:

Name	Description
accept	File types to accept for the File upload widget
datetime	Set to "date", "time" or "datetime" for the date input widget.
field	Database field to update for input widgets
fields	Database fields to display for table widgets
footer	Widget footer to display at the bottom of the widget
form	Associated form widget to post input form fields
format	Widget numeric format string
header	Widget header text to display at the top of the widget
items	Selection items to use with input select and combo widgets
label	Input field label
max	Maximum expected data value
min	Minimum expected data value
multiple	Allow multiple selections for an input combo widget
pivot	Pivot the table widget data. Rows vs columns.
placeholder	Place holder text to use for input text widgets.
prefix	Text prefix to display before the value for numeric widgets.
presentation	Graph presentation.
rows	Numer of rows to display for a text area input widget
subtitle	Subtitle to display for the table widget
suffix	Suffix text to display after a numeric value
text	Static text to use for the widget value
timezone	Timezone to use for the date input wiget
url	URL to use for image and sound widgets
validate	Regular expression to use for validating text inputs.

Formatting Numerics

The format field is used when formatting numberic widgets.

For example, the following will format numbers with an optional sign followed by the number portion with thousand separators and one decimal place. The number will be rounded up.

-0#,###.#^

The formatter characters are:

Character	Description
0	digits with leading zero

| digit

, | Thousand separators % | format as percent

• | Always show sign

• | Show sign if negative ^ | Round up v | Round down