Access
Click Screen Configurations > Screens to access the Screen Overview page.
On the Screen Overview page, click the Create with Builder button at the bottom of page for a Screen Creation or the Gear wheel icon for the selected Screen entry in the search results table for a Screen Update mode accordingly.
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Overview
The Screen Builder functionality provides an ability to create and manage screens, tabs and create content displayed there. You can configure all possible operations and actions and set up data that build and cover the required business processes in the Render application using various advanced options of the Screen Builder. You can use the features of Screen Builder to manage the content in the Render:
create content for web, desktop, mobile,
use screen builder to rapidly create and deploy desired material,
create CRUD screens within point-and-click menus,
call custom extension functions to extend the Render application,
dynamically create search content to display in the Render application,
weight tabs to determine placement of screens within menu,
select screen styles with the builder tool,
provide direct access to database layer using alias framework,
create sections for field edits, tables, and various charts,
internationalize field text and tooltips,
add custom client-side JavaScript via menu-driven tool-set,
add buttons and custom graphics,
use different field types: text, numeric, list, text area, multi-select list, list from API, check boxes, radio buttons, document uploads, inline searches, label, button, datalist, relational datalist, dependent fields, linked list, tooltips.
The process of screen creation/update with builder consists of 2 steps (pages) and includes:
Basic Data configuration
Header and Section configuration
Screen Basic Data
The Basic Data configuration includes the following parts:
Screen Details
Extension Functions
Screen Layout
More information and instructions on how to set up the Screen Basic Data, open the correspondent Screen Master Data Settings page of the User Manual.
After all the changes are made at the first stage, click the Next button at the bottom of the page to proceed to the next stage and configure the Screen Header and Sections.
Screen Header and Sections
After filling in all the necessary data on the first page of the Screen Builder, click the Next button. You will be redirected to the next page to proceed with building the screen data.
On the second step of screen setup, you have the possibility to build a screen layout, define how the Header and the Sections will look on the screen.
You can determine, which data and actions will be available, what fields, images, labels and buttons will be displayed on the screen and used by users in the Render.
The instructions on how to configure the Header level section is very similar to the Section level configuration, however, there are some differences in the settings and purpose of the Header and Section usage. There are different types of sections. Thus, we will go through each of the configurations in detail.
Note that the functionality may work incorrectly in case the browser window width is less than 769 pixels. For example, if a user opens the Settings pop-up window on the second page of the Screen Builder (Header and Section configuration) to configure an image, button, label, or field, the Settings pop-up window with parameters for different image, button, label, or field may be opened instead.
For more information about Header and Section Configuration, refer to the sections named Screen Header and Screen Sections on the Header and Section Configuration page of the User Manual, correspondingly.
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