How to attach actions to buttons

There are three types of forms used in Aware IM – object forms, presentations and visual perspectives (see How to design a form).

Most of the time you do not need to define buttons for the object forms. Aware IM automatically generates the Save and Cancel buttons, that allow submitting or cancelling the changes to the business object, for these forms. Aware IM also automatically generates the button in the form caption and/or hyperlinks that allow invoking operations with a business object being edited – see the “Panel Operations” section for details. You can, however, add your own custom buttons that perform other operations (such as start a process) from a form. To do this you need to define an HTML cell in the form and add an HTML button element that starts a process – see Adding/Editing Business Object Forms section (editing of HTML cells).

You can define hyperlinks in your presentation that will invoke certain operations, such as start a process, run a query etc. See the “Hyperlinks” section for details.

Usually a visual perspective contains the system menu, which is automatically generated by Aware IM. You can configure the names of the menu items and the types of operations they invoke as part of the visual perspective configuration. See the “Setting Menu Item Properties” section for details.

You can also supply your custom menu instead of getting Aware IM to generate its own. See How to set up custom menu.