Page Types
The Layout Designer provides support for different page types that are designed to cater for different needs that your application may have. This section explores each page type individually.
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The Layout Designer provides support for different page types that are designed to cater for different needs that your application may have. This section explores each page type individually.
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The first step to creating your new layout is selecting your Page Type. The platform supports several page types each catering for different types of user interfaces.
After selecting your page type, the page settings can be configured by selecting Page Settings option in the action toolbar (located at the top of the layout designer).
The app page is a page is one that is not bound to any objects or object context. It is mostly used to display general information and other content related to your application.
The first app page created is used as the default landing page of your application.
The name property is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your page for the users.
The size determines the dimensions of the page to be displayed.
Supported values for Page Size: Very Small, Small, Regular, Very Large, Extra Wide and Full Width
The object page displays information retrieved for a specific object instance. Hence, it must be bound to a particular object in order to be used.
Special information related only to a particular object can be displayed using this page.
The name property for an object page is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your object page to the users.
The size determines the dimensions of the page to be displayed.
Supported values for Page Size: Very Small, Small, Regular, Very Large, Extra Wide and Full Width
The object page needs to be created for use within the context of a particular class. This field allows you to set which class should be associated to your page.
The Object Section page type acts as a custom component bound to a class. This can be used to embed your component within other class-bound page layouts by using the Object Section control.
The Object Links Page is a special page that displays all the links and linked instances for the current object instance. This page can be opened by the user if it is placed within an Instance Links Panel on your layout.
The list-result page is a unique page used when creating layouts to display lists of items, such as search results. The page can be used with
Classes - to display a list of objects of the same class
Queries - to display results from a query
Regardless of where the query is called in your application, the associated list-result page is always used to display the results.
List-Result Pages can be displayed as the result of an action in the layout as well.
The name property for a list-result page is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your list-result page to the users.
The size determines the dimensions of the page to be displayed.
Supported values for Page Size: Very Small, Small, Regular, Very Large, Extra Wide and Full Width
The layout config allows you to determine for which classes/queries should this list-result page be used.
Use for classes: Select the classes that will use this page
Use for selections: Select the queries that will use this page
Use for links: Select which class links will use this page
The list item layout page can be used to define how an individual item (for instance from a set of search results) should appear in Represents List, Timelines or Kanban Cards.
List Item Layout is prioritized and will always be used to display your items when used, overriding alternate display layouts such as HTML layouts.
The name property for a list item layout is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your list item layout to the users.
The size determines the dimensions of the page to be displayed.
Supported values for Page Size: Very Small, Small, Regular, Very Large, Extra Wide and Full Width
The list item layout needs to be created for use within the context of a particular class. This field allows you to set which class should be associated to your page.
The dashboard widget is a small layout element which can users can pin on their dashboards.
The name property for a dashboard widget is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your dashboard widget to the users.
You can determine the size of your widget for dashboards.
Widget Size-X: Size of widget horizontally (x-axis)
Widget Size-Y: Size of widget vertically (y-axis)
Widget size values (both horizontally and vertically) vary between 1 to 4, where 4 takes the most space possible for a widget on the dashboard.
Instead of creating a single widget layout using the dashboard widget page type, a complete dashboard can be defined using app dashboard.
When adding new dashboard tabs, an end user can select your app dashboard page to add a full pre-configured dashboard layout to their tabs.
The name property for an app dashboard is used to define a unique name for the page.
The description field can be used to describe the purposes of your app dashboard to the users.
The Base Layout is a special layout that is used for instances where no custom object page layout has been defined yet.
When no base layouts are specified, the platform will generate one for you. Alternately, if a base layout has been created, the platform will use it as the fallback item.
