Text Input

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

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

You can add the Text Input element from the Elements panel to the screen 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, only the Text Input element will be added.

Located in the Properties panel:

• Value: Represents the text entered by the user or initially assigned.
• Placeholder: Specifies an informative text that will appear before the user enters text. It helps users understand what type of information needs to be entered. For example, by adding a placeholder like “Enter your name”, you can guide the user.
• Max Length: Limits the maximum number of characters that users can enter in the text field. For example, if you want to set a limit of 30 characters for a username field, you can use this feature.
• Allow Clear: Allows a Delete (X) icon to appear on the right edge of the element to allow users to quickly clear their input in the text field.
• Mask: Allows the text entered by the user to appear in a specific format (for example, date or phone number). For example, you can encourage users to enter data in the correct format by setting a mask for date entry, such as “##/###/####”.
• Formatter In application development, a Formatter is a feature that allows data to be put into a specific format or arrangement. Formatters are typically used to organize data types such as text, numbers, date and time, and are configured to achieve a specific look or format.This pop-up window contains several options that allow users to format their text input:some text
  • Lowercase: Allows the letters in the Text Input to be written in lowercase.
  • Uppercase: Allows the letters in the Text Input to be written in uppercase.
• Char Only: Allows users to enter only characters of a certain type (for example, letters). For example, when this property is enabled for a name input, the user can only enter letters.
• Allowed Chars: Defines the specific set of characters that users are allowed to enter. For example, only numbers and certain special characters (e.g. “-”, “(”, “)”) can be used in a phone number field.
• Auto Complete: A list of suggestions that is automatically displayed when providing a text input to the Text Input element. It generates suggestions that match the typed text and displays them as a drop-down list. Suggestions usually consist of words or phrases that match the text you type. (For example, if you are searching for a city name and you type “I”, you can see city names such as “Izmir”, “Istanbul”, etc.).

You can manage masking operations in the Text Input element in the applications you develop on the Kuika platform. Masking provides data entry in accordance with the specified formats. Below, sample masking types are given:

Masking Types

• 99/99/9999: A date in international date format (day, numeric month, year). The “/” character is a logical date separator and appears to the user as the date separator appropriate to the current culture of the application. For example: “01/01/2023”.
• (999)-999-9999: United States phone number format, area code is optional. If users do not want to enter optional characters, they can enter spaces or place the mouse pointer directly at the mask position represented by the first 0. For example: “(555) 555-1234”.
• $999,999.00: A currency value between 0 and 999999. Currency, thousands and decimal characters are replaced with their culture-specific equivalents at runtime. For example: “$123,456.00”.

Implementation Steps

1. Drag and drop the “Text Input” element from the Elements panel.

2. Click on the “Text Input” element you added. Open the “Mask” section in the “Properties” panel on the right.

3. While the element is selected, make the relevant definition from the Mask section in the Properties panel.

You can enter data manually in the “Mask → Fixed Value” section or you can also pull data from the database.

Also, let's see how the number masks for different countries look like on Kuika:

• Turkey Number 999 999 99 99
• Germany Number: +49 99 999 99
• France Number 9 99 99 99 99

If you add the distinctions to the “Fixed Value” field in this way, masking will be performed when the preview is taken.

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.

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.

1. Click on the element on the screen.
2. Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
3. 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.

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.

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.

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.