Asking and answering
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Asking and answering
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The controls a page offers when someone has something to say or choose. On a published page like this one they are shown, and send nothing.
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button: an action on this page: send, save, remove, undo.
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text-field: one line of free text.
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Shown in lists.
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textarea: several lines of free text.
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Ask for a change or a new component.
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select: one choice from a fixed set: a status, a kind, a period.
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checkbox: a yes or no the person decides.
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datepicker: a person picks one date by looking at a month, such as by its weekday or near today. For a date a person knows, use when-field.
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when-field: asking for when something is, due or happens.
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A day, like 19 Sep or next Friday, with a time if there is one, like 2pm.
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lookup: a link to another record when there are too many to list, such as a person out of thousands.
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Type 2 or more letters of its name, then choose it from the list.
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search: the person wants to find something by the words in it, from wherever they are; it belongs in the header, where they reach for it on every page.
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upload: a person wants to bring a document, a spreadsheet, a web page, a PDF or a picture into the workspace.
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error-summary: a form was sent and one or more of its answers could not be taken.
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Error: There is a problem