Kuika's Carousel element allows you to display images or content cyclically in your app. Users can switch between different content elements by swiping or using arrow buttons. The Carousel element is particularly useful for product demonstrations, image galleries, or when you need to showcase a variety of content. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Carousel element, how to structure your content and how to customize visual arrangements.

The Carousel element supports web and mobile applications.

This training content consists of the following topics:

Adding a Carousel element,
Carousel element properties,
Authorization,
Visibility,
Editability,
Customize the interface design with Style Panel,
Actions.

Add Carousel Element

After logging in to the Kuika platform, open the project you will work on from the “Apps” screen.

In the “UI Design” (1) module, drag and drop the Carousel element (4) under the “Data” (3) category from the “Elements” (2) panel on the left side.

You can add the Carousel element from the Elements panel by drag and drop. If you drag it to an empty space on the screen, it will be added with the Row element. If you drag it into a Column, you will only add the Carousel element.

Carousel Element Properties

Located in the Properties panel:

No Data Found Message: You can edit the empty status message when there is no data in the data source connected to the Carousel element.
Data Source: Select the source whose data will be shown in the Carousel.
Fade: You can give Fade transition effect to Carousel slides.
Hover Font Color: When you use a Label etc. element in Carousel content, you can change the font color of Label etc. elements when the cursor hovers over the relevant slide.
Hover Bg Color: You can change the background color when the cursor hovers over the related Carousel slide.
Vertical: Carousel slides come side by side horizontally by default. With Vertical, you can make them line up vertically from top to bottom.
Pause On Dots Hover: You can hide the interaction that appears when the cursor is dragged over the dots under the slides.
Autoplay: You can give automatic transition feature to slides.
Autoplay Speed: You can set the speed of the slide autoplay feature.
Starting Index: You can select the starting slide when the screen is first loaded.
Dots: You can hide the dots for interaction under the carousel. They are active/visible by default.
Show No Data Found Image: Allows you to specify an image to be shown to users when no content or images are found.

Authorization.

You can customize user access with “Anonymous Access” and “All Roles Access” authorization options on the screens and elements of your application. While “Anonymous Access” enables access without any account information query, “All Roles Access” provides access by verifying user account information.

For element level authorization, you can manage the security and user experience of your application by selecting the relevant element and editing the “Authorization” settings from the Properties panel.

Visibility.

It allows you to adjust the visibility of screens or elements. Visibility in Elements allows you to regulate visibility based on a specific state or condition. For each element, you can make it always visible, hidden, or visible and hidden depending on a condition.

Click on the element on the screen.
Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
Click on the “Visibility” field and make one of the following selections according to the needs of your application. Kuika offers Always Visible, Hidden, Sometimes Visible options to control the visibility of the screens in your application.

Always Visible: Ensures that the screens in your app are always visible. ‍
Hidden: Allows hiding screens in your application. ‍
Sometimes Visible: Makes screens in your application conditionally visible.

Editability

Allows you to make elements editable.

Enabled: Selecting this option makes the element editable.
Disabled: In this case, the element cannot be edited.
Sometimes Enabled: This option means that the element is sometimes editable and sometimes not, depending on certain conditions.

Customize the İnterface Design with Style Panel

By customizing your elements with the Styling Panel, you can create unique and impressive user interfaces in your web and mobile applications.

The sections defined below vary depending on the element.

Layout‍: Here you can make visual adjustments such as sizing, alignment and padding of elements. These settings also affect the layout of other elements within the element. Properties include Size, Min Size and Align; however, some elements may not support the Display property.
Text: The element's text properties can be edited here through font family, style, color, size, spacing and other options. This section supports all Text related adjustments.
Fill: You can use the Fill setting to customize the element's background with color or images.
Border: You can give your elements a more aesthetic look by adding borders and adjusting the corner radii.
Shadow: You can add a shadow effect to elements used in web applications to give a sense of depth. However, the shadow feature may not be supported as some elements are not suitable for mobile applications.

Actions.

Kuika contains system actions such as Arithmetic, Authorization, Condition, Device, Export, Geolocation, Invers, Local Storage, Multi Language, Navigation, Notification, Payment, UI Control, Process Administration, Process Automation, Trigger, Process Automation, Process Administration and String Operations.

In addition to system actions, you can also use SQL actions that you create yourself.

To add actions to elements, you can use the “+ADD ACTION” button from the Properties panel on the right side.