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View Bar Tag

The viewbar tag implements a drop-down list or a detail view list. It uses the following format:

<swe:viewbar type="value" mode="context" property="value">

where:

• type. You can use one of the following values:
  • Select. If the user chooses this control, then display the view that this control references.
  • A value other than Select. Display the view bar as an HTML select control that includes the set of context or noncontext views, depending on the value of the mode attribute.
• mode. You can use one of the following values:
  • Context. Display only context views.
  • NonContext. Display only noncontext views.

    If you do not specify the mode attribute, then SWE displays all views.

• property. You can use this attribute only if you set the type attribute to Select. If:
  • You set this attribute to FormattedHtml, then SWE displays the HTML select control.
  • You do not specify this attribute, and if no views exist that SWE can display, then SWE displays the contents of this viewbar tag.

How the Viewbar Tag Implements Drop-Down Lists and Tabs

The viewbar tag implements the drop-down list that Siebel CRM uses for second-level navigation and the detail view list that Siebel CRM uses for third-level navigation. You can use it to implement one of the following items:

• Drop-down list. SWE populates each item in the drop-down list with the display name of a context view. It displays the visibility drop-down list in the view bar frame. To implement this drop-down list as a viewbar tag, the following code in the CCPageContainer.swt file or the CCFrameViewbar.swt file sets the Type attribute to Select and the Mode attribute to Context:

  <swe:form>
  <td nowrap>
  <swe:viewbar type="Select" mode="Context">
  <swe:this property="FormattedHtml"/>
  </swe:viewbar>
  </td>
  </swe:form>

• Tabs. SWE creates a horizontal view bar that includes tabs. It sets each tab label to the display name of a noncontext view. To implement this view bar, the following code in the CCViewbar_Tabs.swt file does not include the Type attribute and it sets the Mode attribute to NonContext:

  <swe:viewbar>
  ... HTML ...
  <swe:for-each-view>
  ... HTML ...
  <swe:viewlink state="Active">
  ... HTML ....
  <swe:this property="FormattedHtml">
  ... HTML ....
  <swe:viewname/>
  ... HTML ...
  </swe:this>
  ... HTML ...
  </swe:viewlink>
  <swe:viewlink state="InActive">
  ... HTML ....
  <swe:this property="FormattedHtml">
  ... HTML ....
  <swe:viewname/>
  ... HTML ...
  </swe:this>
  ... HTML ...
  </swe:viewlink>
  ... HTML ..
  </swe:for-each-view>
  ... HTML ..
  </swe:viewbar>

The detail view bar requires the following tags. The drop-down list does not require these tags:

• child for-each-view
• viewlink
• viewname