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Page in draft: this should be the concept page for screen layouts

Overview

There are several stages to designing an application, as outlined in Designing Applications. This topic explains how to lay out the screens using the components provided in the palette.

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Usually an application screen has some combination of

  • multiple data records, for example grid, chart, graph or in cards.
  • selected data records, for example a set of fields (form) or card
  • fields for user interaction and their lables
  • buttons
  • menus and navigation

When it comes to creating actions, you can wire actionflows to different components on the screen

  • button - on-click - action, such as update or delete
  • default double-click action on a data view, such as a grid. such as open recorcd.

When you open an existing screen, it is locked by default. This means the screen cannot be edited, for example by selecting or moving componentss. In design mode, right click on the screen area to unlock it. The previous locked status is remembered when switching back to design mode from app mode. To test buttons and actions that you have configured for a screen, you must switch to  Application Mode.

Chart buttons

Charts provides the standard grid icons.

They also provides the following icons:

Refresh the chart.

Select an existing (or predefined) Filter or create, delete and modify Filters. This causes the chart to refresh and display only those entries which match the selected Filter.

Select an existing (or predefined) multi-column Sort Order or create, delete and modify Sort Orders. Note that data is ordered across all records which are implied by the Filter, not just the current page of data.

Opens the download data form allowing the user to export just the selected items or all data on the chart as either an Excel file, a CSV (comma separated) file or as an HTML document.

Display the number of records in the data, and the number of records currently being displayed.

Grid Context Menus

Right-click on a data grid to open the context menu. The options available depend on whether you right-click in the header row or in a grid row.

Header Context Menu

Sort AscendingSort the data in this grid by this column in ascending order (0 to 9, A to Z)
Sort DescendingSort the data in this grid by this column in descending order (9 to 0, Z to A)
Freeze ColumnFreeze the column to keep it visible when you scroll through the other columns.
Unfreeze all ColumnsUnfreeze all the columns so that the will all move if the grid is scrolled.
Set Flex ColumnFlex columns adjust their size automatically to fit the space.
Hide this Column

Use these options to expand or collapse grid columns in a screen.

Hidden columns do not appear in the grid. To re-show a hidden column, right-click any grid row and select Show Attributes for View <viewName> → Hide this column


Show Hidden Columns

Row Context Menu

Show Stream Item DetailsOpens a window with all the information contained in that grid row
Show Attributes for View <viewName>

Opens a list of all of the attributes (column headers) for this stream view.  Attributes formatted in italics are present in the stream but are hidden in the grid.

To change whether an attribute is hidden or visible, right-click the attribute and select Show this column or Hide this column.

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