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About Screens

A screen is a collection of related views:

• The screen represents a logical grouping of views pertaining to one business function.
• Views in a screen can be grouped into categories simplifying navigation for users.
• All the views in a screen usually map to a single business object.

Screens have a single child object type called Screen View. The screen view object type controls the views that appear in the user interface when a given tab is selected. See Process of Creating Screens and Screen Views.

You access screens through Screen Tabs or Site Map. The links for each of these are defined as part of the Page Tab object definition (child of screen)—one or both may exist for a given screen. Screen definitions specify the default view that appears when a tab is clicked.

NOTE:  The Site Map is limited to nonvisibility views only. Visibility level views, such as My Accounts and My Team's Accounts, do not show up on the Site Map.

For more information about screen tabs, see About the UI Navigation Model.