Bookshelf v7.5.2: Types of Templates

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Types of Templates

The templates you modify fall into one of several groups, depending on the purpose of the template or what the template contains.

View template. Used for displaying a view; specifies where to lay out applets and other page-level controls on the view, and what the formatting of the view should be.

Applet template. Specifies where to lay out fields and controls for an applet. Also specifies the formatting for elements within the applet.

Applets can have more than one mode. The types of modes are:

Base: Read-only mode for displaying but not editing data. Views appear by default in Base mode.

Edit. Mode for editing an existing record.

If New/Query templates do not exist, Edit is used when creating and querying.

Edit List. Allows users to edit fields in a list applet.

If Edit/New/Query templates do not exist, Edit List is used in employee applications running high interactivity when editing, creating, and querying. Standard interactivity applications, such as customer and partner applications, do not use Edit List, so you must define an Edit mode template.

New: Mode for creating a new record.

Query: Mode that allows you to perform a query-by-example (QBE).

Each mode has a corresponding template. Some templates, such as edit-mode templates, can be shared by many applets.

NOTE: New and Query should only be used if they are different from Edit. Otherwise Edit is used.

Web Page template. Specifies the layout of the whole display. Has information about where the screen bar/view bar/view should appear.

Page Container template. Used as container pages for view templates. The overall purpose of the page container is to provide a structure for the overall application. There is one page container per application, but views can be flagged indicating they should not use the container page (for example, the login page cannot use the page container).

Formatting templates. Templates that allow you to create custom HTML types, such as specialized controls. list items, and page items. These templates have the extension .SWF (Siebel Web Format). For more information about .SWF files, refer to Adding Sorting Capabilities to Your Application in Special Behavior Supported by Templates.

Your application can contain other pages, of course, that do not contain any Siebel tags. For example, you may have an About This Application help page. However, this page, by definition, is not a template.