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Composite : Portlet/Dialog

A container that displays its child views in columns - in the root of a portlet or dialog.

Description

Composites don't have much structure of their own. They don't introduce any visual noise. Using fewer of them is a good idea for simplicity and to avoid generating extra markup as they do introduce a new div for each composite.

Composites, Tabs, and Switches are container views. They contain other views and may contain each other to any depth. e.g. Composite->Tabs or Tabs->Switch->Tabs

In Portlets and Dialogs, they are mainly used to organize Layouts. In Layouts, they are mainly used to organize Controls e.g. Charts, Tables, Cards, ...

Properties
augment : uiIdentifier

A path to the view to augment with this view.

Augmentation rules depend on the types of augmented and augmenting views. When augmented view is a layout, such as Composite, Tabs, or Switch, and augmenting view is also of the same type, the children views will be added to the augmented layout. When both augmented views are layouts but of different type, the augmenting view is inserted next to the augmented one. When augmented view is primitive, the augmenting view is inserted next to it.
Valid values based on“string”.
:?[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(:[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*)*

Value must begin with a letter. Case and length are not restricted. Letters and numbers are allowed. Colon is used as a scope separator. Spaces and other punctuation characters are not allowed.

caption : string

Caption text

cols : integer

Number of columns in the layout

enabled : string

Enablement flag association path or expression

fluid : boolean

True to enable special view positioning for space minimization

icon : string

Icon name

name : identifier

Unique view name

Valid values based on“string”.
:?[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(:[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*)*

Value must begin with a letter or an underscore. Case and length are not restricted. Letters, numbers and underscores are allowed. Colon is used as a scope separator. Spaces and other punctuation characters are not allowed.

privilege : identifier

Access privilege

Valid values based on“string”.
:?[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*(:[\p{L}_][\p{L}\p{N}_]*)*

Value must begin with a letter or an underscore. Case and length are not restricted. Letters, numbers and underscores are allowed. Colon is used as a scope separator. Spaces and other punctuation characters are not allowed.

visible : string

Default visibility flag association path or expression

Default visiblity set to a control but value can be overriden by script, client state, or control-specific mechanism such as setListColumn in a table.
Content
  • Sequence of:

    • CaptionLayout [0..1]

    • Choice of:

      • Composite [1..1] - A container that displays its child views in columns - within a composite in a portlet or dialog.

      • Tabs [1..1] - A container that displays its child views in tabs - within a composite in a portlet or dialog.

      • Switch [1..1] - A container that displays only one of its child views at a time - within a composite in a portlet or dialog.

      • LayoutRef [1..1]

      • Card [1..1]

      • PortletRef [1..1]

      • Toolbar [1..1]

      • Entry [1..1]

      • Label [1..1]

      • Button [1..1]

Example

xml
...
   <Composite name="tblRootLayout">
      <LayoutRef layout="mda:EntityHolder" head="true" name="EntityList"/>
      <LayoutRef association="EntityList customFields" caption="ids.CFGroup3" layout="mda:CustomFieldListGrouped" head="true" name="ref""/>
   </Composite>
</Portlet>

Parents
  • Portlet - Portlets are the basic UI components that make up an application. They host one or more Layouts and present features to end users.
  • Dialog - Dialogs are similar to Portlets, but are specifically used for creating, editing, and presenting information in a transactional, rather than informational way.