4.5.2.2.4. GroupBoxLayout

GroupBoxLayout is a container that allows framing the embedded components and setting a universal header for them. Additionally, it can collapse content.

Component XML-name: groupBox.

An example container description in a screen XML-descriptor: 

<groupBox caption="Order">
    <dateField datasource="orderDs" property="date" caption="Date"/>
    <lookupField datasource="orderDs" property="customer"
                 optionsDatasource="customersDs" caption="Customer"/>
    <textField datasource="orderDs" property="amount" caption="Amount"/>
</groupBox>

groupBox attributes:

  • caption – group header.

  • orientation – defines embedded components direction − horizontal or vertical. The default value is vertical.

  • collapsable – if the value is set to true the component’s content can be hidden using the icons /.

  • collapsed – if set to true, component’s content will be collapsed immediately after the screen gets opened. It is used with collapsable="true".

    An example of a collapsed GroupBox:

By default, the groupBox container is 100% wide, similar to vbox.

All groupBox attributes:

caption expand orientation width
collapsable height spacing  
collapsed id stylename  
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