Page Comparison

...

• The visible checkbox can be used (either manually or by using a display action). Variables which don't have this setting checked, won't be shown in any input form

• The display filter can be used in combination with a filter in the Input Form Panel's properties. In that case, only variables with a matching filter will be shown inside the relevant panel. Multiple Panels can be configured, to show different sets of variables

• Locked
  Locking the variable, will show a read-only version in the input panel, for end users of the Editor.
  The variable is still accessible / editable through the API or when using a DataSource.

...

For more information on display filters, see Conditional Interface Elements

...

• short text, long text and formatted text present the user with options for entering textual information

• A calculated field has no input option at all, but has an additional document action ("Value"), which can return its value. See lower

• an Image variable is presented to the user as a choice of images from a variety of repositories

• A number variable is presented in the Input Form as a numeric stepper

• A checkbox is visualized as a true/false checkbox

• A date variable allows the user to choose a date

• A list variable can be presented as a pulldown or as a list of checkboxes (with multiple items being selectable)

• a table variable is presented as an input grid, and will be placed in the text frames as tab delimited text

• color, paragraph style, character style and font variables allow for selection (and in some cases modification) of resource items. Note that these input types are mostly used by actions, and do not offer a lot of control over use throughout the document (see ?Common Document Actions for examples which might be more suited to your needs in those cases)

• coordinate variables are presented to the user as an input of a measurement unit, taking into account the current document's viewpreferences (mm, pt, in, ...), and also allowing the basic calculations. These again are most often used by document actions

• divider variables allow you to insert a divider into the Input Form

• button bar variables allow you to configure buttons (or icons) with attached document actions

• Structured Text (new in 6.3 & 2020.3) a variable that allows structured text in the content, mapped to styles

...

Examples of display formatting for february 7, 2030

• D MMMM YYYY will display the selected date as: 7 February 2030

• M/D/YY will display the selected date as: 2/7/30

• MM.DD.YYYY will display the selected date as:  02.07.2030

Supported formats

These formats are tested to work. Other formats or combinations might work also, but we guarantee these to work.

• D/M/YY

• DD/MM/YYYY

• DD-MMM-YY

• D MMMM YYYY

• DD.MM.YYYY

• D.M.YY

• DDMMYYYY

• DD *

• D *

• EE *

• EEEE *

• M/D/YY

• MM/DD/YYYY

• MM.DD.YYYY

• MM DD YYYY *

• MM-DD-YYYY *

• M.D.YY

• MMYY

• MMMM *

• YYYY/MM/DD

• YYYY.MM.DD

• YYMM

• YYYYMMDD

• YY *

• YYYY *

* Guaranteed to work on CHILI publisher Online and GraFx Publisher

List

...

A list variable can be configured to hold multiple list items, with the option to hide certain items based on values of other variables. The "value" of each list item is optional, and will be used (if present) when the selected item is inserted into a variable Text Frame.

...