4.2.8 Visibility and display settings for properties

You can set whether to display a property in each JP1/AO window or whether the value and display settings can be changed, by using a combination of visibility and display settings of the service property. However, you cannot set these for variables.

Visibility of properties

You can set visibility for a service property. If you specify visibility for a property, you will be able to display or hide the property in JP1/AO operation windows.

You can display properties in the following JP1/AO operation windows:

Create Service window
Submit Service window
Task Details window
Shared Properties Settings area

For example, you can set to hide properties (that users who submit services do not need to know) from the Submit Service window.

Note that the output properties of services are displayed in the Task Details window only.

You can set visibility of the input property of a service in the Property tab of the Service Builder Edit window. You can set Edit and Submit Window or Edit Window Only for visibility of a property. Visibility is fixed for output properties. You can set (by display settings) whether to display output properties in the Task Details window.

Edit and Submit Window: Specify this option for the properties you want to display as the input items in the Create Service window and Submit Service window. If you specify this option for a property, that property is opened to the users with Submit or higher role.
Edit Window Only: Specify the option for the properties you want to display as the input items in the Create Service window. If you specify this option for a property, that property is opened to the users with Modify or higher role.

Display settings of properties

If you specify display settings of a service property, you can define whether to display or hide the service property or whether the value can be changed in the Create Service window or Submit Service window.

Editable: If this option is set for the input property of a service, the value for the service property can be changed in the window in which the service property is displayed.
Read only: If this option is set for the input property of a service, the value of the service property cannot be changed in the window in which the service property is displayed.
Display: If this option is set for the output property of a service, the value of the service property can be viewed in the window in which the service property is displayed.
Hide: The service property is not displayed in windows.

The following tables describe whether a property is displayed and operations are enabled in individual windows, for each combination of visibility and display settings.

Table 4‒22: Whether properties are displayed in the *Create Service* window
Visibility	Display settings	Whether a property is displayed and operations are enabled in the window
Edit and Submit Window	Editable	The property value and display settings can be changed.
	Read only	The property value and display settings can be changed.
	Hide	The property value and display settings can be changed.
Edit Window Only	Editable	The property value can be changed.
	Read only	The property value is displayed, but cannot be changed.
	Hide	Hidden

Table 4‒23: Whether properties are displayed in the *Submit Service* window
Visibility	Display settings	Whether a property is displayed and operations are enabled in the window
Edit and Submit Window	Editable	The property value can be changed.
	Read only	The property value is displayed, but cannot be changed.
	Hide	Hidden
Edit Window Only	Editable	Hidden
	Read only	Hidden
	Hide	Hidden

Table 4‒24: Whether properties are displayed in the *Task Details* window
Visibility	Type of the service property (input or output)	Display settings	Whether a property is displayed and operations are enabled in the window
Edit and Submit Window^#	Input property	Editable	Displayed
		Read only	Displayed
		Hide	Hidden
	Output property	Display	Displayed
	Output property	Hide	Hidden
Edit Window Only	Input property	Editable	Hidden
		Read only	Hidden
		Hide	Hidden

#: For an output property, the visibility in the Property tab of the Service Builder Edit window is displayed as Task Details window.

Table 4‒25: Whether shared service properties are displayed in the *Shared Properties Settings* area
Visibility	Display settings	Whether a property is displayed and operations are enabled in the window
Edit and Submit Window	Editable	The property value can be changed.
	Read only	The property value can be changed.
	Hide	The property value can be changed.
Edit Window Only	Editable	The property value can be changed.
	Read only	The property value can be changed.
	Hide	The property value can be changed.