How to find the Universal GUI Indicium ID or Value for MultiselectParameterID

Hi Jheng,

To answer your questions in order:

You don't need a special Universal or Indicium ID, it's just the ID of the task parameter in the Software Factory. In your case that would be selected_rows. One thing to be aware of though is that the extended property applies to the whole application so any task that has an XML parameter called selected_rows (with Popup for each row turned off) will be a multirow task.

Put it in the runtime config of your application in the SF. You don't need to add it to IAM under Global configurations as that's only required for the properties that are explicitly marked as global.

Users can select rows via Ctrl+click, Shift+click or Ctrl+A. As far as I'm aware there are no selection checkboxes on desktop at the moment (they only appear on touch devices).

Also worth noting: the XML is only populated when the task is actually run, so you can't use it in your default or layout logic. Duplicates aren't automatically filtered out either so you'll have to deal with that yourself. The Multirow task execution blog has a good example of the XML structure and how you'd go about reading it in SQL.

Hope this helps!

 

Small addendum, the task parameter does not have to use the XML datatype per se. It can be any String datatype such as varchar or nvarchar if desired.

For example, in Db2 for i, you may not want to use XML as datatype as it reserves the full 2,1GB in memory to allocate the potentially long XML string. For SQL Server, using the XML datatype is recommended.