Ask Question input with keyboard

[joskis]

Hello.

I have learned quite a lot about sambapos

1 New step to learn for me

I have product (steak) sold by weght when waiter choose this product I would like to ask question Enter weight

Theoricly I know how to set it up. I have to ask question and update quantity of product
I know how to do it if waiter should choose buttons 1kg ,2kg etc
But my question is how to ask question and the answer should be entered by keyboard instead of choosing preset buttons.

[JTRTech]

It’s often reffered to as [?Prompt], there are allot of options for it too, full keyboard, numeric even custom keypad, ok, cancel buttons, masks, default value etc, it’s documented well on forum.
It’s an old topic from v4 but covers bulk of it.

Custom Keyboard Codes

As of v4.1.61 we can create Custom Keyboards to use with [?prompt] notation, and a Custom Keyboard Widget is available for Entity Screens. For [?prompt] notation, the syntax is: [?<prompt>;<mask>;<default value>;<flags>;<keycodes>] <prompt> is the question or prompt to display <mask> is a regular expression to define what type of characters (and how many) are allowed <default value> allows for a common value to be pre-entered <flags> lets you define the keyboard type and which buttons …