Hidden UI Element
Description
Renders a hidden field.
May be used by
Properties
Value (
value) Description
The static default value of the hidden field. If an "Initial Value Query" is configured that returns a result, the default value is replaced by this result.
Attributes
String
Mandatory
Property (
property) Description
The property of the hidden field. This property will be sent to the server via REST as part of a JSON object. For example, if the property name is 'marketingCampaign' and the value is configured to 'socialPlatformX', the JSON sent to the server will be as follows: {"marketingCampaign": "socialPlatformX"}.
Attributes
String
Mandatory
Validation RegEx: [a-zA-Z0-9_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*
Example
marketingCampaign
Example
referredFrom
HTML ID (
htmlId) Description
The ID of the element in the HTML. If no ID is set, the 'property' is used as the ID.
Attributes
String
Optional
Validation RegEx: [a-zA-Z0-9_]+
Submit To Server (
submitToServer) Description
If enabled, this value is submitted to the server. Otherwise, it is only used locally (e.g. to confirm inputs of other fields).
Attributes
Boolean
Optional
Default value
true
Initial Value Query (
initialValueQuery) Description
JSONPath query to fetch the field value from the initial REST call response. Requires an initial REST call to be configured in this custom step UI. If the query yields multiple results, the first one is set as the initial value and all others are discarded.
Note:
This query yields multiple results.
The first one is set to the initial value, the rest is discarded. $..givenname User1
See the JSONPath documentation for the full documentation: https://github.com/dchester/jsonpath
Examples:Assume the initial REST call returns the following JSON response:
{
"meta": {
"type": "jsonapi.metadata.document",
"timestamp": "2023-03-10T13:06:01.294+02:00"
},
"data": [
{
"type": "user",
"id": "user1",
"attributes": {
"contextData": {
"givenname": "User1",
"surname": "FSMTest",
"roles": "customerA"
}
}
},
{
"type": "user",
"id": "user2",
"attributes": {
"contextData": {
"givenname": "User2",
"surname": "FSMTest",
"roles": "customerB"
}
}
}
]
}
The following table shows the results of various JSONPath queries given the JSON above:
Description JSONPath Query Extracted Initial Value Static path from the root $.meta.type jsonapi.metadata.document The role of the user whose id equals "user1" $.data[?(@.id == 'user1')].attributes.contextData.roles customer The number of users $.data.length 2 All "givenname" attributesNote:
This query yields multiple results.
The first one is set to the initial value, the rest is discarded. $..givenname User1
Attributes
String
Optional
Example
$.store.bicycle.color
Example
$..phoneNumber
Example
$..data[?(@.id == 'street')].attributes.currentValue
YAML Template (with default values)
type: ConfigurableHiddenField
id: ConfigurableHiddenField-xxxxxx
displayName:
comment:
properties:
htmlId:
initialValueQuery:
property:
submitToServer: true
value: