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Navigation Style

There are two ways a user can navigate between the form sections of a form (these ways of navigation are called navigation styles) – random and wizard-like.

With random navigation style the names of the form sections are displayed as tabs. A user can click on any tab at any time and Aware IM will show the layout of the corresponding form section. The order of form sections defined in the Configuration Mode only determines the order in which tabs are displayed and does not affect the order of navigation. The users may freely switch between different form sections and enter or change the attribute values as they wish. The form may be submitted from any of the form sections.

With wizard-like navigation form sections are displayed in the order that they are defined on the form – to navigate to the last section a user has to go through all the previous sections. The form may be submitted only from the last section. Wizard-like navigation may be very useful when input of a business object is performed in logical steps where one step can only be performed once the previous step has been accomplished (this is a very popular style in the Internet-based systems).

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sometimes the information displayed on the next form section may depend on the information entered on the previous form sections. For example, there may be a business rule that calculates the value of an attribute based on the values of other attributes. Aware IM performs all necessary calculations during the transition between form sections and displays the correct value when the next form section is displayed.

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an attribute of a business object may be shown on more than one form section. In this case the value of the attribute is retained when a user switches between the form sections. This applies both to random and wizard-like navigation styles.

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there is an alternative way of implementing wizard forms in Aware IM – see Multi-step Processes.
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