Option Button
The option button displays an option with a radio button adjacent to it.
Option buttons work in groups where only one of the group members can be selected.
When the form control is applied the name entered will display as the caption for the form control. This can be changed by selecting the Caption property.
When an item in the group is selected the Selected Option property reports the name of the selected option button.
Properties
Appearance
Appearance - Border
Appearance - Caption
- Caption
Controls the control's caption.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
- Caption Color
Controls the caption color of the control.
- Caption Font
Determines the font used for the controls caption.
- Caption Horizontal Alignment
Controls whether the text inside the caption is horizontally aligned to the left, right or center
Appearance - Picture
- Picture
The default picture to be shown for this control.
- Picture (Hover)
The picture to be shown when the control is in a hover state.
- Picture (Selected)
The picture to display on the option when the option is selected.
- Picture Size Mode
Controls how the picture will be sized to the control.
- Picture Style
Controls how the picture will appear on the control.
Behavior
- Clear Selection Allowed
If TRUE, allows the user to clear the active selection, otherwise if FALSE, an item IS always selected.
- Enabled
Controls whether the control is enabled (if the result is TRUE) or disabled (if the result is anything other
than TRUE, e.g. FALSE).
- Error Result
Determines whether the value of the control is in error. The result of this rule is a string containing the
error message if the value is in error, otherwise a blank string or the number zero.
- Group Name
The name of the group to which the option belongs.
- Selected Option
The name of the selected option button control.
- Selected Option (Override Rule)
The name of the selected option button control.
- Tab Index
Configures the position of the control in the form tab order.
- Visible
Determines whether the control is visible (TRUE) or hidden (FALSE).
General
- (Metadata)
Optional text which can be used to provide information belonging to or about a control. For example, a list
of CSS classes which can be parsed and applied to the control using the Integration Theme in DriveWorks Live.
This doesn't affect the control's behavior.
- (Name)
The name of the control
- (Tag)
Optional text which can be used to describe the control, but which doesn't affect the control's behavior.
- Tooltip Duration
Controls the duration, in seconds, for which the tooltip will remain visible. Values of 0 and below indicate
an infinite duration.
- Tooltip Text
Specifies the text to display in a tooltip when hovering over the control.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
Layout
- Height
Controls the height of the control.
- Left
Controls the left position of the control.
- Top
Controls the top position of the control.
- Width
Controls the width of the control.
Formatting the Displayed Text
Formatting Text
The text displayed in the Caption and Tooltip Text property support the use of formatting tags to format parts of the text string.
The supported tags are:
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Color
- Url (not supported for Tooltip Text)
For example:

See How To: Format Text for more information.
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