A question on launching a form

kklosson

I have a BO that is large - about 200 attributes. The form has 15 tabs. The design is good except that the form can take a really long time to display. I'm thinking of a paradigm where instead of launching the whole form, the user can launch a particular section (what is currently a tab) which will be a much smaller form.

I know that I could provide a link to each from a query row, but there are just too many to squeeze in and be usable. I could launch a form that provided access to the other forms, but that would launch modal form window.

So I'm looking for a third way here. Some way to put the BO in context, then provide access to the BO using one of about 15 different forms.

tford

How do you put the BO into context today?

Would opening a sub form up in a New Tab work for your situation?

kklosson

I do it straight up. I bring a form into edit mode from a query. It seems that if I were to bring the form up from a form of the same BO, it will launch modaly. Is that not so?

ACDC

If you use View instead of Edit, you will get around the modal window

tford

Sample BSV is at:
http://www.awareim.com/community/TestKK2.bsv

This BSV uses a combination of features to accomplish what you are looking for:

Form "Save when closed"
Not showing buttons on the form, but instead the "Save when closed" performs the save as users click on various operations which trigger opening a new form
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Auto Refresh of a query when a process is executed

ACDC

By the way, in the latest update there is a paid for feature, on reference attributes where the grid can be loaded collapsed. This not only cleans up a busy form but also prevents the data loading for the grid query until uncollapsed, resulting in a faster form load

tford

ACDC,

there is a paid for feature, on reference attributes where the grid can be loaded collapsed

Thanks very much!

kklosson

To all who contributed to this, thanks.

I have a form doing what I need. The form is using action buttons to launch the different forms that I need for the same BO. I have about a dozen such buttons and I use the top and bottom rows to place them. It would be nice to just have a grid of buttons or a vertical list but action buttons only go where they go.

I don't think I can use HTML buttons because they all start processes and that's not going to work well.

Thoughts?

tford

Why do you say starting processes won't work well?

kklosson

Well, I suppose I could, but I think it would be (a) not pretty, (a) clumsy to manage.

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