This field plug-in is designed to display a symbol either before or after an input field. It was developed for a field plug-in development demonstration for beginners which you can learn more about in this recorded webinar and in this Support Center article.
- Define symbol to be displayed.
- Choose where the symbol should appear.
This field plug-in also inherits functionality from the baseline-decimal field plug-in.
This field plug-in requires the decimal field type.
To use this plug-in as-is
- Download the sample form from this repo and upload it to your SurveyCTO server.
- Download the format-symbol.fieldplugin.zip file from this repo, and attach it to the sample form on your SurveyCTO server.
| Parameter key | Parameter value |
|---|---|
symbol |
The symbol to be displayed. |
placement |
The positioning of they symbol. This can take two values:
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To display a percent symbol on the right of the textbox, the following would be placed in the appearance column of the spreadsheet form definition:
custom-format-symbol(symbol='%', placement='right')
| Feature / Property | Support |
|---|---|
| Supported field type(s) | decimal |
| Default values | Yes |
| Constraint message | Uses default behavior |
| Required message | Uses default behavior |
| media:image | Yes |
| media:audio | Yes |
| media:video | Yes |
show-formatted appearance |
No |
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Sample form
Download sample form -
Developer documentation
Instructions and resources for developing your own field plug-ins.
https://github.com/surveycto/Field-plug-in-resources -
User documentation
How to get started using field plug-ins in your SurveyCTO form.
https://docs.surveycto.com/02-designing-forms/03-advanced-topics/06.using-field-plug-ins.html