SAIL Design System guidance available for Billboard Layout When you need to get a user's attention, use the billboard layout. Learn how to broadcast the right message and create powerful, visual prominence for sections that shouldn't be ignored.

Function

a!billboardLayout( backgroundMedia, backgroundColor, showWhen, height, marginBelow, overlay, accessibilityText, marginAbove )

Displays a background color, image, or video with optional overlay content.

Parameters

Usage considerations

Default text colors for light and dark backgrounds

• When the overlay style is none, the standard text color changes based on the selected background color.
  • For light background colors, standard text is dark gray.
  • For dark background colors, standard text is switched to white.
  • These automatic text color changes apply even when background media is set.

Using overlays

• A billboard layout may have either a bar, column, full, or no overlay.
• When overlay content does not fit within the layout, it scrolls vertically.

Sizing and displaying background media

• For billboards with a value of "SHORT", "MEDIUM", or "TALL" for the height parameter, background media is displayed as large as possible to fill the available width.
• When the background media's aspect ratio is different from the layout's aspect ratio, the background will be cut off at the top and bottom.
• If it is important that the background media be fully visible, use auto height. See the UXDG for guidance on this setting.
• When a video is used as the background, it plays automatically and does not have audio.

Examples

Copy and paste an example into the INTERFACE DEFINITION in EXPRESSION MODE to see it displayed.

Billboard with overlay

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a!billboardLayout(
  backgroundColor: "#619ed6",
  overlay: a!barOverlay(
    position: "BOTTOM",
    contents: {
      a!columnsLayout(
        columns: {
          a!columnLayout(
            contents: {
              a!richTextDisplayField(
                labelPosition: "COLLAPSED",
                value: {
                  a!richTextItem(
                    text: "Finance Summary",
                    size: "LARGE"
                  )
                }
              )
            }
          ),
          a!columnLayout(
            contents: {
              a!columnsLayout(
                columns: {
                  a!columnLayout(
                    contents: {
                      a!richTextDisplayField(
                        label: "Total Spending",
                        value: a!richTextItem(
                          text: "$31,000.00",
                          size: "MEDIUM"
                        )
                      )
                    }
                  ),
                  a!columnLayout(
                    contents: {
                      a!richTextDisplayField(
                        label: "Remaining Budget",
                        value: a!richTextItem(
                          text: a!richTextItem(
                            text: "79%",
                            size: "MEDIUM"
                          ),
                          color: "POSITIVE"
                        )
                      )
                    }
                  ),
                  a!columnLayout(
                    contents: {
                      a!richTextDisplayField(
                        label: "Open Requests",
                        value: a!richTextItem(
                          text: "36",
                          size: "MEDIUM"
                        )
                      )
                    }
                  )
                },
                alignVertical: "TOP"
              )
            }
          )
        },
        alignVertical: "MIDDLE"
      )
    },
    style: "DARK"
  ),
  height: "SHORT"
)

Displays the following:

See the SAIL Design System: Billboard Layout for guidance on when to use each overlay style.

Feature compatibility

Old versions

There are older versions of this interface component. You can identify older versions by looking at the name to see if there is a version suffix. If you are using an old version, be sure to refer to the corresponding documentation from the list below.

To learn more about how Appian handles this kind of versioning, see the Function and Component Versions page.

Related Patterns

The following patterns include usage of the Billboard Layout Component.

• Cards as List Items Patterns (Choice Components, Images): Use the cards as list items pattern to create visually rich lists as an alternative to grids or feeds. This pattern uses a combination of cards and billboards to show lists of like items. You can easily modify the pattern to change the card content or the number of cards per row to fit your use case.