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  • Screen (dashboard) and dashboard elements and in the repo
  • Components and layouts Layout container/child relationships and page structure
  • Types of component and what they look like
    • Containers: areas, forms: is there any difference?
    • Fields
    • Data components and data views 
      •  forms
      • grids
      • etc
  • Connecting components to data - link out
  • finding container (don't use parent because the useless parent field only shows the application)
  • Components and layouts in the palette → Themes and palletes
  • Responsive design - point to theme 2 pages (can these be generalised)
  • Changing design - styles and shared styles.

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Creating Clear Spaces on a Screen - dashboard elements

8.3 or earlier: You can divide up a screen into multiple parts, called dashboard elements, using the Add options. In the repository, you can see the different elements listed under the dahboard.


Areas

Areas are containers

  • 8.3 or earlier: Area not bound to data (changing this time)
  • card-area (container) - for cards
  • form-area - not just for "forms". This area can be backed by data


8.3 or earlier

  • Form backed by one stream only
  • To show data from another stream
  • Card-area (container) - as this can have its own data One card to show the attribute.


Components and layouts

A component can be:

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Data components are automatically backed by data.

You can start with data or a compoinent

Backed by

  • a stream
  • a view - s
    •  8.3 or earlier - aa stream plus filters
    • 9.0 onwards - a stream, attributes from related streams (see ERDS) plus filters etc.

Finding a Component's Container 
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formBuildingFindComponentParent
formBuildingFindComponentParent

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