Efforts
- 27 Dec 2023
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Efforts
- Updated on 27 Dec 2023
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Master Your Tasks with Effort Widget!
Effort widget makes it possible to track both the amount of effort put forth and the amount of time spent on a given task or event.
Select Effort from Widget, specify the settings and take action!
Figure: Effort widget
User Persona: Application Administrator
Let's explore the following Use Case
Use Case | Solution |
| Admin Fredrick wants to develop a component to keep track of the time and efforts used to address inbound Incident requests and to view those details in an Incident Form. | Fredrick can drag and drop the Effort Widget on the Incident form and configure the widget by providing relevant details in Properties, Advance, Validations, Appearance, and Security. |
Configure Effort
To configure Effort Widget, perform the following steps:
- Navigate to General tab of Form Designer. Enter all mandatory details required for the Form.
- In the Design Form tab, from the left pane select Widgets > Effort.
- Drag and drop this control inside a panel to create a Effort field.
- Click (Settings icon for this field) Icon to view Properties pop-up.
Figure: Creating Effort
You can view the following tabs on the Settings for this field:
Properties
This section contains the list of properties that can be used to configure the respective Effort widget's Title, Sub Title, Effort Level, Help Text, Rich Text, and Tooltip. To know more about the fields available under the Properties section, see Field Description below.
Figure: Properties
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Properties section:
| Field | Description |
| General | |
Title * | Specify the name for the Effort widget. |
Sub Title | Specifies the text that you want to display just beneath the Title. You may use it to describe the purpose of the control or the way it should be used. |
Effort Level * | Select the desired effort level from the drop-down. |
| Informative | |
| Help Text | Provide a help text that gives the user an idea of the required format in a way to prevent input errors. It can be keywords to search the formula field. |
Rich Text | Select it to enable the text as rich text and interpret as rich text. It allows the administrator to make the text in bold, italicized, etc.
|
Tooltip | Enter a suitable text as a tooltip. The tooltip is displayed when the user hovers the mouse cursor over the object/field/control. |
Figure: Rich TextAdvance
This section contains the list of general features where options such as Include as Filter, Include as a column in grid view, and Show Clear icon can be enabled. To know more about the fields available under the section, see Field Description below.
Figure: Advance
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Advance section:
| Field | Description |
| General | |
Include as Filter | If this toggle button is enabled, then the respective control is available as a filter option on the Form Designer list page of the application. |
Include as a column in grid view | If this toggle button is enabled, then the respective control is available in Grid view on the Form Designer list page of the application. |
Show Clear Icon | If this toggle button is enabled, then a cross mark (x) is displayed against all the drop-down values selected from the respective control using which the user can clear the individual value. |
Validations
The section contains the list of Validation setups that can be used to configure the respective control as mandatory, based on condition, and so on which are mentioned below.
To know more about the fields available under the section, see Field Description below.
Figure: Validations
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Validations section:
| Field | Description |
| General | |
Tenant | Select the desired Tenant from the drop-down. |
Effort should be | Select one of the following options as per your requirement:
|
Below Conditions Meet | Select it if you want to display this control based on certain conditions. The following fields are displayed to configure the conditions: |
| Every Time | Select it if you want to display this control always without any specific conditions or validations. |
Figure: Validations
icon to add more conditions.Appearance
This section contains the Appearance setups that can be used to configure the look and feel of the respective control such as font type, color, size and so on. To know more about the fields available under the Appearance section, see Field Description below.
Figure: Appearance
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Appearance section:
| Field | Description |
| General | |
Label Layout | Select the required label layout position for the text box control. The available options are:
|
Upload Icon | Icons can be assigned to the selected attribute. |
Icon Position | Specify the position of the icon. It can be either to the left or the right of the control.
|
| Text | |
| Font Type | Select the type of the font from the drop-down list of available options of font type. |
Font Color | Select the type of the font color from the color widget from the provided set of color options. Click |
Font Size | Select the size of the font from the drop-down list of available options of font type using upwards or downwards arrows. A sample screenshot is shown below: |
| Font Style | Select the type of the font from the drop-down list of available options of font type. |
button, a pop-up displays to browse. Select the required icon.
option to select the required color from the displayed color widget. A sample screenshot is shown below:
Figure: Color Widget
Figure: Font Size Drop-downSecurity
This section contains the list of Security setups that can be used to configure the respective control as Restrict field access and Encrypted. To know more about the fields available under the Security section, see Field Description below.
Figure: Security
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Security section:
| Field | Description |
| General | |
Restrict field access | If this field is enabled, access to the Effort field can be restricted. |
Encrypted | Select it to encrypt the sensitive information about the data of your control. |
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