The EGL Data Parts and Pages wizard creates a Web application from a relational-database
table. When you are working in this wizard, you can specify the following
aspects of each type of Web page that is produced:
- Page title
- Style sheet
- Fields to display, including their order and properties
- Links to other pages
When you are working in the wizard dialog called
Define the Web pages
of the application, you can click the tabs to navigate between pages.
Do as follows for each page (where possible):
- Set the page title in the Page title field
- Select a style sheet from a drop-down list in the Style sheet field
- To see the effect of accepting the current page definition, click Preview.
- If you wish to specify the number of rows to display on a page, select Pagination and
assign the number of rows (a positive integer) to Page size.
- Select the fields to be included on the page:
- To include a field, select the related check box. To select every field,
click All.
- To exclude a field, clear the related check box. To exclude every field,
click None.
- To change the display location of a field, click on the field, then use
the Up and Down arrows to move the field to another location.
- To set properties for a field, click on the field then double-click the Value field
in the Properties pane. Enter the value or, in some cases, select from a drop-down
list.
- Select the actions that the user can perform on the page:
- To include an action, select the related check box. To select every action,
click Select All.
The individual actions are
create,
delete,
extract,
list, and
read:
- Create links to the create detail page, where
the user can display or insert one row. The option is present on the create
detail page only to indicate that the user can create a row from that page.
- Delete is available only on the detail page.
This option deletes the record that has the key specified by the user.
- Extract links to the selection condition page,
which accepts selection criteria from the user. The option is present on the
selection condition page only to indicate that the user can cause the return
of a result set from that page.
- List links to the list page, which displays
multiple rows in accordance with the user's criteria.
- Read is available only on the create detail
page. This option displays the record that has the key specified by the user.
- Update is available only on the detail
page. This option updates the record that was modified by the user.
- To exclude an action, clear the related check box. To exclude every action,
click None.
If a given action
is always available, you cannot clear the check box.
- To set the Web-page label for an action, click on the action name, then
double-click the Value field in the Properties pane
and enter a value.