selectItems - Selection Items

Provides one or more items for user selection, for example, in a check box.

Category

None

Syntax

<xp:selectItems attributes>content</xp:selectItems>
Table 1. Essential properties
Property Description
value Provides labels, values, descriptions, and disable flags for one or more description items. A value here is different from data binding.
Table 2. All properties
Category Properties
basics attrs, binding, id, loaded, rendered, rendererType
data value
format disableTheme, themeId

Usage

Embed this control in another control to provide item selections for the parent control.

In Design mode, put focus on the control that is to contain the item selection and click the Values tab under Properties. Use Add formula item to create a selectItems control.

To see the item selection properties under All properties, you must switch to Source mode and put focus on the embedded selectItems control (as opposed to the parent control).

The value formula must return an array. Each element of the array must define one selection item formatted as follows:
label|value|description|disabled
Where only label is required. The vertical bars are part of the syntax.

If value is not specified, it defaults to label. Specify disabled as true to disable (gray out) the selection item.

For the return value, you can explode (@Explode) the result of @DbColumn or @DbLookup.

Examples

This Check Box Group control contains two items for selection. 
<xp:checkBoxGroup id="checkBoxGroup1" value="#{document1.fruit}">
	<xp:selectItems>
		<xp:this.value>
			<![CDATA[#{javascript:return new Array("Apples", "Oranges")}]]>
		</xp:this.value>
	</xp:selectItems>
</xp:checkBoxGroup>
This Check Box Group control uses different names for the labels and values.
<xp:checkBoxGroup id="checkBoxGroup1" value="#{document1.fruit}">
	<xp:selectItems>
		<xp:this.value>
			<![CDATA[#{javascript:return new Array("Apples|apples", "Oranges|oranges")}]]>
		</xp:this.value>
	</xp:selectItems>
</xp:checkBoxGroup>
This Check Box Group control disables the first selection.
<xp:checkBoxGroup id="checkBoxGroup1" value="#{document1.fruit}">
	<xp:selectItems>
		<xp:this.value>
			<![CDATA[#{javascript:return new Array("Apples|apples||true", "Oranges|oranges")}]]>
		</xp:this.value>
	</xp:selectItems>
</xp:checkBoxGroup>
This Check Box Group gets its item selections from the values in a view column.
<xp:checkBoxGroup id="checkBoxGroup1" value="#{document1.fruit}">
	<xp:selectItems>
		<xp:this.value>
			<![CDATA[#{javascript:var list = @DbColumn("", "fruits", 1);
			return @Explode(list,",")}]]>
		</xp:this.value>
	</xp:selectItems>
</xp:checkBoxGroup>