Widget Type Text-box - Unable to add text?

Apliqo UX
1

Hello Exports,

I’ve created a Text-box widget but cannot seem to be able to find how to add text! Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
David

2

You need to make the Read Only property of the text box widget false. This property is true by default.

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Thanks for your reply @cw-ch-scott, it looks like we need to upgrade our UX. We are seeing different menu options for the text box. With our version (2021.21.11 FP2) ready only doesn’t default to Yes but it still won’t allow us to edit.

Thanks,
David

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Of course it is always a good idea to upgrade however write access for text box does still work perfectly in your version. Even without having the advanced options dialog to write the code for you you can still just sdd the following to the advanced options for the widget.

"textBox": {
    "readOnly": false
}
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Hi @cw-ch-scott,

We have updated UX to the latest version, however, we are still seeing the same issue with text-box where we are unable to edit, even after adding the advance options. Could there be an issue with our content store?

Thanks,
David

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Hi David,

Content Store should not be relevant here.

For the text box widget to work all dimensions for the cube being referenced must be either global fixed or global filter. You can’t put and dimensons on rows, columns or widget filter.

If you still have issues I suggest you contact your local cubewise office.

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David did you ever work this out? This is a 2 year old thread I know, but I’m just seeing the same issue myself. I can change the properties but see nowhere to edit text.

Cubewise themselves have made a bunch of “instruction” toolbar popups in ApliqoUX that I inherited here, but not a single one of them contains any text. I’m wondering if they hit the same issue and couldn’t work out how to actually add any text into them.

@cw-ch-scott are there any instruction videos online or documentation that talk you through how to do this in idiot-proof fashion. It does not at all feel intuitive to do.

EDIT: I just chatted to Rodrigo from Cubewise (thanks Rodrigo) and he kindly explained that you need to have a cell linked to the textbox first. I assumed (because I didn’t see it explained anywhere else) that the framework model itself would store the textbox data automatically inside the report definition. I did not realise you need to link them explicitly to a cell in your model else they just sit there inactive as a white page. I do have a random two dimension cube behind it (first one from the framework cubes that was in the list), which I did put all dimensions in global fixed and I’m not seeing any editable region. But maybe if I make a cube specifically for this job that points to a definite string cell it will work. I’ll give it a try.

EDIT 2: Ok, it does work after setting up a custom write-access cube behind it. However, as is very common with editing ApliqoUX reports, it appears broken until you save everything, close everything and then reopen everything fresh (so the $rootScope can be rebuilt on page load to include the updates I guess). Anyway, I got it working so I can go fix all those other reports now too. :slight_smile:

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Hi @Epistemophile, I think I ended up using html snippets to achieve what I needed at the time :slight_smile:

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