- 30 May 2024
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- Updated on 30 May 2024
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The Image Display control lets users easily add images to forms, enhancing visual communication and engagement. It supports various image formats and provides flexibility in how images are sourced and displayed. Users can display pre-uploaded images or source them from a form field, ensuring that the images are always relevant and up-to-date.
Figure: Image_Producer View
Figure: Image_Consumer View
Use Case User Persona: Application Designer | Solution |
At NovaTech, employees often struggled with understanding complex procedures outlined in their online training forms. The lack of visual aids made it difficult for the users to quickly grasp key points, procedures, and processes, and hence leading to errors and confusion. This caused inefficiencies and demanded extra time for clarification and re-training. | Sam, Application Designer at NovaTech, utilized the Image Display Control to enhance the online training forms. He strategically integrated icons and graphical elements to improve navigation and user experience. He has embedded relevant images and diagrams in the form to explain complex procedures and provide visual references. By incorporating the Image Display Control into the online training forms: Improved Comprehension: Employees found instructions clearer, resulting in fewer errors. Efficiency: Reduction in additional clarification and re-training sessions saved both time and resources.. |
Configure Image Control
Let's configure Image Control!
- Navigate to General tab of Form Designer. Enter all mandatory details required for the Form.
- In Design Form tab, from the left panel select Controls > Form Controls > Image.
Drag and drop this control on Form Designer canvas for configuration. A greyed-out image is displayed as a placeholder on the canvas. A sample screenshot is shown below:
Figure: Image Placeholder - Click Settings iconto view Properties pop-up.
You can view the following tabs for Image control:
Properties
This section contains the list of properties using which the Administrator can configure the respective control's name, subtitles etc. To know more about the fields that are available under the Properties section, see Field Description given below.
Figure: Properties
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Properties section:
General | |
Label | Specify the name for the Image control. This name identifies the Image control on the form. The system displays the validation message as "Enter a label" if you try to save the image control without providing any label to it. Example: Board Members, Sharefolder etc. |
Include Label | If this toggle button is enabled then the configured label will be displayed alongside the Image control. This option provides flexibility to control the visibility of the label associated with Image control. |
Input Selection | Select the type of input to be defined for the image control.
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Image Upload | Select and upload the required image using upload icon. You can upload one image from your system in the format such as .jpeg,.png etc. |
Title | Specify the relevant title for the selected image. The title should be crisp and short. |
Description | Specify the description to be displayed along with the title of the image. The description provides brief introduction about the relevant image. |
URL | Specify the URL to which the Image should redirect on click. The URL will get open in next tab. |
Appearance
This section contains the list of validation setups using which the Administrator can configure the respective control as mandatory, based on condition etc. To know more about the fields available under the Appearance section, see Field Description given below.
Figure: Appearance - Image
Field Description
This table contains the list of fields and their descriptions that are available under the Appearance section:
Image | |
Alignment | - Specify the alignment of the image. The available options are as follows:
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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 option to select the required color from the displayed color widget. A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Color Widget |
Font Size | Select the size of the font from the drop-down list of available options of font type using upwards or downward arrows. A sample screenshot is shown below:Figure: Font Size Drop-down You can also use a horizontal slider to increase or decrease the font size. A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Font Size Slider |
Font Style | Select the required font style. Available options are as follows:
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Font Alignment | Specify the alignment of the text. The available options are as follows: - Select it to make the text as left aligned - Select it to make the text as center aligned - Select it to make the text as right aligned - Select it to make the text as justified |
Border | |
Style | Specify the style of the border. Available options are as follows:
Figure: Border Style |
Side | Specify the side on which the border should be applied. Available options are as follows:
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Width | Specify the width of the border to be applied in px. Available options are as follows:
Figure: Width |
Color | Specify the color of the border. Select the required color from the color widget.A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Color Widget |
Corner | Specify the corner style of the border. This option appears only if border style is selected as Dashed, Solid or Dotted. Available options are as follows:
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Background | |
Background Type | Specify the background type of the image. Available options are as follows:
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Image Upload | This option appears only if background Type is selected as Image. A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Image Upload Select and upload the required image using upload icon. |
Color | This option appears only if background Type is selected as Solid. A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Color Specify the color of the background from the color widget from the provided set of color options. Click option to select the required color from the displayed color widget. A sample screenshot is shown below: Figure: Color Widget |
Corner Radius | Specify how rounded the corners of the border must appear, with higher values resulting in more pronounced rounding. This option is available when the border style is set to Dashed, Solid, or Dotted and the Corner option is selected as Round. |
Image Upload Properties
Upload an image to provide an image to an application or as a background to a form. You can select, edit and upload an image. You can perform various actions on the image such as horizontally or vertically flip, crop, zoom, extend the selected image to fit the screen and so on.
Figure: Resize Image