Accessing selected text in form controls

Applies to: Desktop form

In some cases you might want to perform some logic based on the current selected text in a form control, such as executing a search or classify named entities in a text.

To do this, define a command targeting a task, and then attach the command to the On Context Menu Item Click event in a control supporting text selection. When the task is invoked from the context menu, the selected text can be accessed from the built-in Action Orchestrator data source within the task:

Action Orchestrator.Current Text Selection

Note that you cannot disable a command based on the value for the selected text. To determine what to do, define a decision block in the task.

Controls supporting text selection:

• E-Mail Address Edit
• File Preview (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, text)
• HTML Edit
• Rich Edit
• Text
• Text Edit
• Text Popup Edit
• URL Edit