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Creating and managing applications
Creating and managing applications contains a variety of topics on how to build and efficiently use applications.
Adding specialized form items
You can use specialized form items to style text, echo text back, create dynamic lines, or add HTML.
Echoing text with a Text item
You can use the Text item to echo text, or build a summary page.

Creating and managing applications
Creating and managing applications contains a variety of topics on how to build and efficiently use applications.
- Creating an application
  This topic gives a general overview of the application creation process, from opening the HCL Leap interface to launching a completed application.
- Creating an application from an excel spreadsheet
  Leap allows you to create an application from an excel spreadsheet, automatically creating the widgets and importing the data found in the spreadsheet.
- Styling your application with a custom theme
  Style the colors, fonts, and other characteristics of the application by creating or importing a custom theme.
- Copying items
  Items may be copied from one form to another form within any application.
- Moving items on a form
  Form items are not static after they are added to a form. You can move items around on a single page, duplicate form items, and move items between pages on your form.
- Creating an accessible application
  When you create a form or application, the following information helps you design an accessible form for users with disabilities.
- Enabling dynamic layout
  When you build applications, you can now set the display width of your Leap application. Setting this feature reduces or removes the need for horizontal scrolling when you have an unknown or limited amount of space, such as when the application is displayed in a WebSphere_Portal portlet.
- Globalization features
  The following information describes the languages formatting features supported by HCL Leap .
- Creating rules in your application
  Rules help you gather the correct information from users and organize your information after data is entered in a form. You can create composite rules that govern how your form, and the data in your form behaves.
- Labeling data, performing data analysis, and exporting data
  You can add labels to data elements in your application that become the label in the export file.
- Incorporating web services into your applications
  The following topics describe how to incorporate web services into your HCL Leap application.
- Adding formulas to your application
  You can create and edit formulas to assign values to an item on your HCL Leap form.
- Adding specialized form items
  You can use specialized form items to style text, echo text back, create dynamic lines, or add HTML.
  - Echoing text with a Text item
    You can use the Text item to echo text, or build a summary page.
  - Adding tables to a form
    The Table form item enables the user to add complex entries to a form.
  - Adding HTML fragments to a form
    Using the HTML Fragment item, you can add HTML anywhere in your form.
  - Adding media to a form
    You can add media to the form anywhere you place the Media form item.
- Managing the files associated with your application
  You can upload a variety of files, such as images, for use with your application. Managing these embedded files is done in the Files section of the Settings tab
- Leap document integration
  Leap's document integration feature lets you use previously built PDF files and populate them with data captured by Leap.
- Adding Stages to an application
  It is often desirable to have an application, or form, transition through a set of phases or stages. At each stage the form might be used by different people in different roles. The form also might be presented in a slightly different manner in each stage, such as having some items or pages hidden, or in a read-only state.
- Deploying applications and viewing data responses
  After an HCL Leap application is built it must be deployed. After it is deployed, you can supply users with the URL of the application so they can launch it. After users submit completed forms, you can view the responses.

Echoing text with a Text item

You can use the Text item to echo text, or build a summary page.

About this task

Use the Text item from the Palette to create a header or title for your form. You can also use it to echo text, make a summary page, or to add a user’s name to the beginning of a form. The following instructions describe how to create a summary page on your form. The summary page displays a read-only version of the changes a user made before confirming a change. For example, if your application is a checkout feature where users enter billing and shipping information, you can set an echo text page to confirm their billing and shipping addresses before completing and confirming the order.

Procedure

In the Outline view insert a page by clicking the Ellipses (…) icon for Page 1 and selecting “+ Add Form Page”.
An empty form page appears.
Drop a Text item onto the form.
Click the newly created text item.
The properties side panel opens.
Enter the name of the Text item in the text area.
For example, you might enter Summary Page.
Under the Content: heading, click Insert item. Select the page and item you want to display on the summary page.
Repeat for all of the items in your form you want to summarize.
You can separate the selected items by spaces, commas, line breaks, or other formatting.