Add and configure components for a comment box
Part one of adding a comment box to a Px view is to add and configure components in your station.
Prerequisites:
- An open connection to your station
Add and configure the components for a comment box
- In the Px Editor Palette side bar, open the control palette, and drag and drop a StringWritable point to a location in the Config node on your station.
- In the Palette side bar, open the history palette, expand the Extensions folder and drag and drop a StringCOV history extension onto the StringWritable point added earlier.
- In the Nav tree, double-click on the added StringCov component to open its Property Sheet view and set the
Enabledproperty value to true. - In the Nav tree, right-click on the StringWritable point and select from the popup menu.
- In the Set dialog box, type some text to generate the first history record, for example: First text entry.
- In the Nav tree, double-click on the StringWritable point to open its Property Sheet view.
- In the
Facetsslot, click on the configuration icon (
).The Config Facets dialog box appears.
- In the Config Facets dialog box, click the Add button (
) and configure the facet key as follows:- Key:
multiLine - Type:
Boolean - Value:
true
- Key:
In part two of this procedure you will .