14.1 Introduction to Adding Tables

Unlike forms, tables allow you to display more than one data object from a collection at a time. Figure 14-1 shows the SRList page in the SRDemo application, which uses a browse table to display the current service requests for a logged in user.

Figure 14-1 The Service Request Table

Once you drop a collection as a table, you can then add row selection components that allow users to select a specific row. When you add command buttons bound to actions, users can then click those buttons to execute some logic on the selected row. For more information, see Section 17.3, "Creating Command Components to Execute Methods". You can also modify the default components to suit your needs.

Read this chapter to understand:

• How to create a basic table

• How to add navigation between sets of returned objects

• How to modify the default table once it's created

• How to add components that allow users to show or hide data

• How to include a column that allows users to select one, or one or more, rows in the table

• How to manually set the current row in the table