4.10.6 Items in the Attribute Settings window (drop-down part in the guide area)

(1) Guide Part ID text box

For the Guide Part ID, enter a character string (no more than 20 single-byte characters) that uniquely identifies the Guide Part. Use the Guide Part ID text box when you change an automatically set Guide Part ID.

You can enter single-byte alphanumeric characters, single-byte hyphen (-), and single-byte underscore (_). When the Guide Part ID of the parent Guide Part is an empty character string, you can also enter an empty character string in this text box. When entering a character string other than an empty character string, enter a character string that is unique in the same guide area.

If this text box contains a value that has been set as the Guide Part ID of the parent of another drop-down part, you cannot change the value.

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(2) Parent Guide Part ID text box

Enter a character string (of no more than 20 single-byte characters) as the Guide Part ID of the parent drop-down part. Enter a value in the Parent Guide Part ID text box when the drop-down part subject to the setting in this window has a parent-child relationship with another drop-down part and is the child drop-down part.

You cannot perform the following operations:

• Using characters other than single-byte alphanumeric characters, single-byte hyphen (-), and single-byte underscore (_)

• Entering an undefined Guide Part ID

• Entering the same value as the value entered in the Guide Part ID text box

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(3) Setting area of the selections list

• Parent value text box

  Enter the values of the selections that are the parent of the selections specified in the Selections list text box. A maximum of 300 characters can be entered. The value of a selection is the information a Plugin Part uses to determine the item that is selected. Enter values in this text box when the drop-down part subject to the setting in this window has a parent-child relationship with another drop-down part and is the child drop-down part.

  You cannot perform the following operations:

  • Entering a value that has already been specified in the setting area of the settings list

  • Entering a character string containing an ASCII code from 0x00 to 0x1F or 0x7F

• Upper row of the Selections list text box: Label

  Enter the labels of the selections while separating each label by a comma^#. A label is the information that is displayed in the window. A maximum of 100 characters can be used for a label, and a maximum of 100 labels can be specified. Escape characters are not counted in the number of characters.

  If you enter an empty character string, the selections will be blank in the drop-down part displayed in the Operational Content Execution Window.

  You cannot perform the following operations:

  • Entering a character string containing an ASCII code from 0x00 to 0x1F or 0x7F

  • Entering more than 20,299 characters

• Lower row of the Selections list text box: Value

  Enter the values of the selections while separating each value by a comma^#. The value of a selection is the information a Plugin Part uses to determine the item that is selected. A maximum of 300 characters can be used for a value. Enter the same number of values as the number of the labels of the selections. Escape characters are not counted in the number of characters.

  You cannot perform the following operations:

  • Entering a character string containing an ASCII code from 0x00 to 0x1F or 0x7F

  • Entering a total number of more than 60,299 characters

  • Entering a value that has already been specified in the setting area of the selections list

• Add button

  Clicking this button adds a new row at the bottom of the existing rows in the setting area of the selections list. The maximum number of rows is 500.

• Delete button

  Clicking this button deletes the corresponding row.

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When you enter multiple elements in a text box, separate the elements from each other according to the following rules:

• Separate each element by a single-byte comma (,).

• If the value of an element includes a single-byte comma (,), enclose the whole element by single-byte double-quotation marks (" ").

• If the value of an element includes a single-byte double-quotation mark ("), escape the quotation mark (by entering two quotation marks successively), and then enclose the whole element by single-byte double-quotation marks (" ").

The following shows an example of specifying labels of selections:

Washington D.C.,"New""York""","Los,Angeles"

These labels are displayed in the drop-down as shown below.

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