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Since 23.1

Properties

Name Description Reflects Type Default
accesskey Accesskey provides a hint for generating a keyboard shortcut for the current element. The attribute value must consist of a single printable character. string -
actions Set Actions on the widget Each action is defined as an object: move: { type: “drop”, acceptedTypes: “mail”, icon: “move”, caption: “Move to” onExecute: javascript:mail_move” } This will turn the widget into a drop target for “mail” drag types. When “mail” drag types are dropped, the global function mail_move(egwAction action, egwActionObject sender) will be called. The ID of the dragged “mail” will be in sender.id, some information about the sender will be in sender.context. The etemplate2 widget involved can typically be found in action.parent.data.widget, so your handler can operate in the widget context easily. The location varies depending on your action though. It might be action.parent.parent.data.widget To customise how the actions are handled for a particular widget, override _link_actions(). It handles the more widget-specific parts. - -
align Used by Et2Box to determine alignment. Allowed values are left, right string -
autofocus Have browser focus this input on load. Overrides etemplate2.focusOnFirstInput(), use only once per page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input#attributes boolean -
class CSS Class. This class is applied to the outside, on the web component itself. Due to how WebComponents work, this might not change anything inside the component. string -
data Set the dataset from a CSV string -
deferredProperties
Any attribute that refers to row content cannot be resolved immediately, but some like booleans cannot stay a string because it’s a boolean attribute. We store them for later, and parse when they’re fully in their row. If you are creating a widget that can go in a nextmatch row, and it has boolean attributes that can change for each row, add those attributes into deferredProperties - -
disabled Defines whether this widget is visibly disabled. The widget is still visible, but clearly cannot be interacted with. Widgets disabled in the template will not return a value to the application code, even if re-enabled via javascript before submitting. To allow a disabled widget to be re-enabled and return a value, disable via javascript in the app’s et2_ready() instead of an attribute in the template file. boolean false
dom_id
Get the actual DOM ID, which has been prefixed to make sure it’s unique. string -
emptyLabel Textual label for first row, eg: ‘All’ or ‘None’. It’s value will be ″ String ""
hasFeedbackFor
Get a list of feedback types string[] -
hidden The widget is not visible. As far as the user is concerned, the widget does not exist. Widgets hidden with an attribute in the template may not be created in the DOM, and will not return a value. Widgets can be hidden after creation, and they may return a value if hidden this way. boolean -
id
Get the ID of the widget string -
label The label of the widget Legacy support for labels with %s that get wrapped around the widget Not the best way go with webComponents - shouldn’t modify their DOM like this string -
leafOnly If true, only leafs (NOT folders) are selectable boolean false
noLang Disable any translations for the widget boolean -
parentId Parent is different than what is specified in the template / hierarchy. Widget ID of another node to insert this node into instead of the normal location string -
select_options Select box options Will be found automatically based on ID and type, or can be set explicitly in the template using SelectOption[] -
statustext Tooltip which is shown for this element on hover string -
styles
WebComponent * - -
translate
List of properties that get translated - -
_optionRenderPromise
When we create the select option elements, it takes a while. If we don’t wait for them, it causes issues in SlSelect Promise -
_optionTargetNode
Get the node where we’re putting the options If this were a normal selectbox, this would be just the HTMLElement -
needed
Compatibility for deprecated name “needed”
use required instead
- -
options
Get property-values as object
use widget methods
object -
readOnly
Lion mapping
true
- -
supportedWidgetClasses
et2_widget compatability
Legacy compatability. Some legacy widgets check their parent to see whats allowed
array []
updateComplete A read-only promise that resolves when the component has finished updating.

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Events

Name React Event Description Event Detail
sl-expand emmited when tree item expands //TODO add for other events {id: String, item:SlTreeItem}
et2-click Emitted when a tree item is clicked. Clicks on the expand / collapse button and other slotted contents are excluded -

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Methods

Name Description Arguments
blur() Removes focus from the control. -
checkCreateNamespace() Checks whether a namespace exists for this element in the content array. If yes, an own perspective of the content array is created. If not, the parent content manager is used. Constructor attributes are passed in case a child needs to make decisions -
clone() Creates a copy of this widget. _parent: et2_widget
createElementFromNode() Create a et2_widget from an XML node. First the type and attributes are read from the node. Then the readonly & modifications arrays are checked for changes specific to the loaded data. Then the appropriate constructor is called. After the constructor returns, the widget has a chance to further initialize itself from the XML node when the widget’s loadFromXML() method is called with the node. _node: , _name:
deleteItem() deleteItem, deletes an item by id _id: , _selectParent:
et2HandleBlur() If the value is unchanged, put any held validation messages back Named et2HandleBlur to avoid overwriting handleBlur() in Shoelace components _ev: FocusEvent
et2HandleFocus() When input receives focus, clear any validation errors. If the value is the same on blur, we’ll put them back The ones from the server (ManualMessage) can interfere with submitting. Named et2HandleFocus to avoid overwriting handleFocus() in Shoelace components _ev: FocusEvent
findActionTarget() returns the closest SlTreeItem to the click position, and the corresponding EgwActionObject _event:
focus() Sets focus on the control. options: FocusOptions
getArrayMgr() Returns the array manager object for the given part managed_array_type: string
getArrayMgrs() Returns an associative array containing the top-most array managers. _mgrs: object
getChildren() Get child widgets Use .children to get web component children -
getInputNode() Get input to e.g. set aria-attributes -
getInstanceManager() Returns the instance manager -
getLabel() getLabel, gets the Label of of an item by id _id:
getNode() return the Item with given _id, was called getDomNode(_id) in dhtmlxTree _id: string
getPath() Returns the path into the data array. By default, array manager takes care of this, but some extensions need to override this -
getRoot() Returns the base widget Usually this is the same as getInstanceManager().widgetContainer -
getSelectedLabel() getSelectedLabel, retrieves the Label of the selected Item -
getSelectedNode() getSelectedNode, retrieves the full node of the selected Item -
getTreeNodeOpenItems() getTreeNodeOpenItems _nodeID: string, mode: string
handleDragEvent() Handle drag events from inside the shadowRoot events get re-targeted to the tree as they bubble, and action can’t tell the difference between leaves inside the shadowRoot event:
handleSelectionChange() Handle a change in selected items event:
hasChildren() hasChildren _id:
isValid() Used by etemplate2 to determine if we can submit or not messages:
loadFromXML() Load extra stuff from the template node. In particular, we’re looking for any _node: Element
loadingFinished() Needed for legacy compatability. promises: Promise[]
openItem() Open an item, which might trigger lazy-loading _id: string, string:
optionSearch() Search options for a given value, returning the first matching option value: string, options: SelectOption[], searchKey: string, childKey: string
parseXMLAttrs() The parseXMLAttrs function takes an XML DOM attributes object and adds the given attributes to the _target associative array. This function also parses the legacyOptions. N.B. This is only used for legacy widgets. WebComponents use transformAttributes() and do their own handling of attributes. _attrsObj: , _target: object, _proto: et2_widget
refreshItem() Updates a leaf of the tree by requesting new information from the server using the autoloading attribute. _id: string, data: Object
reSelectItem() reSelectItem, reselects an item by id _id:
set_label() NOT the setter, since we cannot add to the DOM before connectedCallback() TODO: This is not best practice. Should just set property, DOM modification should be done in render https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/guide/templates#design-a-performant-template value: string
setArrayMgr() Sets the array manager for the given part _part: string, _mgr: object
setArrayMgrs() Sets all array manager objects - this function can be used to set the root array managers of the container object. _mgrs: object
setClass() manipulate the classes of a tree item this sets the class property of the item (just like php might set it). This triggers the class attribute of the sl-tree-item to be set mode ”=” remove all classes and set only the given one mode ”+” add the given class mode ”-” remove the given class _id: string, _className: string, _mode: '=' | '+' | '-'
setInstanceManager() Set the instance manager Normally this is not needed as it’s set on the top-level container, and we just return that reference manager: etemplate2
setLabel() set the text of item with given id to new label _id: , _label: , _tooltip:
setStyle() Does nothing _id: , _style:
setSubChecked() Set or unset checkbox of given node and all it’s children based on given value _id: string, _value: boolean|"toggle"
styleTemplate() Overridable, add style -
submit() Called whenever the template gets submitted. We return false if the widget is not valid, which cancels the submission. _values:
validate() Massively simplified validate, as compared to what ValidatorMixin gives us, since ValidatorMixin extends FormControlMixin which breaks SlSelect’s render() We take all validators for the widget, and if there’s a value (or field is required) we check the value with each validator. For array values we check each element with each validator. If the value does not pass the validator, we collect the message and display feedback to the user. We handle validation errors from the server with ManualMessages, which always “fail”. If the value is empty, we only validate if the field is required. skipManual:
_emptyLabelTemplate() Render the “empty label”, used when the selectbox does not currently have a value -
_get_action_links() Get all action-links / id’s of 1.-level actions from a given action object This can be overwritten to not allow all actions, by not returning them here. actions:
_handleClick() Click handler calling custom handler set via onclick attribute to this.onclick _ev:
_labelTemplate() Common sub-template to add a label. This goes inside the form control wrapper div, before and at the same depth as the input controls. -
_oldChange() Change handler calling custom handler set via onchange attribute _ev: Event
_optionTemplate() Render a single option Override this method to specify how to render each option. In a normal selectbox, this would be something like: <option value="${option.value}" title="${option.title}" ?selected=${option.value == this.modelValue}> ${option.label} </option>`; but you can do whatever you need. To use a different WebComponent, just use its tag instead of “option”. We should even be able to pass the whole SelectOption across <special-option .value=${option}></special-option> selectOption: TreeItemData
_set_label() Do some fancy stuff on the label, splitting it up if there’s a %s in it Normally called from updated(), the “normal” setter stuff has already been run before this is called. We only override our special cases (%s) because the normal label has been set by the parent value: string
_setAriaAttributes() Set aria-attributes on our input node -
destroy() et2_widget compatability
true
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set_class() Set the widget class
Use this.class or this.classList instead
new_class: string
set_disabled() Wrapper on this.disabled because legacy had it.
Use widget.disabled for visually disabled, widget.hidden for visually hidden. Widgets that are hidden from the server via attribute or $readonlys will not be created. Widgets that are disabled from the server will not return a value to the application code.
value: boolean
set_select_options() Set select options
assign to select_options
new_options: SelectOption[] | { [key : string] : string }[]
set_statustext() supports legacy set_statustext
use this.statustext
value: string

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