Overview
You now have the ability to allow the user to re-use a custom section row template. This feature has added the tag of "Repeatable" to custom section row templates.
IMPORTANT: This feature should be used only when absolutely necessary. This solution was not intended as a quick custom section creation tool. It is still our recommendation to use distinct custom section rows and extended attributes whenever possible. Using distinct rows and extended attributes will allow for better performing reporting, integration and searching.
The Problem
The
simplest of use cases this solution is addressing revolves around a qualitative
list of 1500 possible flavors. At most
a section could contain 50 flavors; previously a custom section admin would
have to create 50 row templates with ambiguous row header names: Flavor 1, Flavor 2, Flavor 3 etc. When
consumed these identifiers make it unusable when searching, because the row
header has to be identified. Alternatively they would be required to create
1500 row templates for the custom section; this was unreasonable and depending
on the number of rows needed unsupported.
The Solution
The
ability to re-use a custom section row template is now available. Now the administrator just needs to create
one row called “Flavor” and include the qualitative single select extended
attribute as the first cell of that row.
The Basics
To
create a repeatable row the following steps should be followed:
1.
Create a custom section following the same steps as outlined in the
Administrators guide.
2.
For the row you would like to be repeatable to the end user, add the tag of
“Repeatable” to the row header information as shown in the following figure:
Figure 1.
Repeatable tag
Note: Because the row is repeated on the
specification, distinct extended attributes cannot be used within the row.
Here’s an example of what this Custom Section could look like in consumption:
Figure 2. Custom Section
