Configuring dropdowns in legacy views
Legacy view component
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Adding dropdowns allow you to filters your views based on attributes or changing input variables.
Basic dropdowns configuration
When configuring basic dropdowns in your views, the following attributes are available:
Attribute | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
attribute | Yes | Record.Attribute Custom Object | References objects defined in the Knowledge Model. ImportantIn many use cases the record must have an identifier defined to use properly. |
id | Yes | String | Defines a unique identifier for the field. It gets auto-generated if not defined. It is important in the context of Base and Extension. |
order | Yes | Integer | Defines the order of the table column. Gets auto-generated if not defined. It is important in context of Base and Extension. |
The example YAML for configuring basic dropdowns in your views:
id: dropdown
type: dropdown-list
settings:
data:
columns:
- attribute: RECORD.ATTRIBUTE1
id: 100
order: 100
- attribute: RECORD.ATTRIBUTE2
id: 200
order: 200Advanced dropdowns configuration
When configuring more advanced dropdowns in your views, the following attributes are available:
Attribute | Required | Type | Possible values | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
floatingPlaceholder | No | Boolean | true false | false | Defines that Strings are automatically left and numbers and timestamps right aligned. |
styles | No | Enum | overflow styles | Contains different styling options such as overflow or styles. | |
overflow | No | Enum | full-width line-break scroll | full-width | Defines the orientation of a list of dropdowns when the width of the selected dropdowns exceeds the component size. |
styles | No | Enum | horizontal vertical | - | Contains different style options such as horizontal and vertical alignment. |
horizontal | No | Enum | full right center left | full | Defines the horizontal alignment of the component. |
vertical | No | Enum | top center bottom | bottom | Defines the vertical alignment of the component. |
displayName | No | String | Defines a display Name that should be displayed instead. | ||
selected | No | String | DEPRECATED - Defines the options which should be selected up-on page load. | ||
scope | No | Enum | disabled hidden immutable | Defines the scope of the dropdown option. This can be used in the context of base and extension. | |
onClick update | No | Boolean | title list | list | Defines an onclick variable update action. |
variables: - name | No |
| - | - | Defines the variable into which the selected value will be written. You can then make use of the variable at different components. |
selection | No | Boolean | single multiple | single | Defines if the dropdown should be single or multi-select when updating the variable value. |
The example YAML for an advanced dropdown configuration:
id: dropdown
type: dropdown-list
settings:
floatingPlaceholder: true
styles:
overflow: full-width
position:
horizontal: right
vertical: center
data:
columns:
- attribute: RECORD.ATTRIBUTE1
id: 100
order: 100
- attribute: RECORD.ATTRIBUTE2
id: 200
order: 200
displayName: CustomName
scope: hidden
onClick:
update:
variables:
- name: <DUMMY_VARIABLES>