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Creating New Screen Home Page Applets

Applets that appear in screen home page views are simplified versions of applets that appear in other views. Using simplified versions of standard applets helps keep screen home page views simple, easy to manage, and performing well.

This task is a step in Process for Creating Screen Home Page Views.

To create screen home page applets

1. Create a banner applet by copying an existing banner applet, such as Account Home Screen Homepage Banner and change the following properties:

   Property	Change to
   Name	Target Business Component Home Screen Homepage Banner
   Title	Name of the home screen. This value appears in the middle area of the home screen, above the list of view links.

2. Create a rapid search and rapid add applets by copying and existing applets, such as Account Home Search Virtual Form Applet and Account Home Add Virtual Form Applet respectively.
   1. Change the following applet properties:

      Property	Change to
      Name	Target Business Component Home Search Virtual Form Applet or Target Business Component Home Add Virtual Form Applet
      Business Component	Target Business Component Home Search Virtual or Target Business Component Home Add Virtual These business component were created in Creating Rapid Search and Rapid Add Virtual Business Components and To configure the Rapid Add virtual business component.

   2. Remove existing controls (child objects of Applet) that represent fields from the original business component and add new controls to represent the fields from the target business component, which are the fields you want to display in the search applet. Be sure that the controls map to fields defined in the business component. Controls not representing fields can be reused. You do not need to remove them.
   3. Remove existing Web Template Items (child objects of Applet Web Template Item) that represent controls from the original applet and add new web template items to represent controls from the new applet. Be sure to repeat this step for each Applet Web Template Mode. For example, you may need to add and remove web template items for both Base and Edit Mode.

      For the Item Identifier property, use a number between 1300 and 1340. This range is available for Rapid Add and Rapid Search applets.

   4. Modify one of the following:
      • If drilldown objects were defined on the source applet, modify the drilldown object in the new applet to identify a target view to go to after the user clicks the Go button. For more information about drilldown objects, see About Drilldowns.
      • If either the Mirror Add GotoView or the Mirror Search GotoView Applet User Property were defined for the source applet, modify the value in the new applet to identify the target view to go to after the user clicks the Go button.

For more information about configuring applets, see Configuring Applets.