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About Grid Layout

Grid Layout is a set of visual design features in the Web Layout Editor and supporting applet Web templates that allow you to modify form layout without having to directly modify applet Web templates. The work space is a grid-based canvas where controls snap to a grid of cells that measure 8 x 8 pixels each. You can configure the layout of form applets using a palette of layout tools, such as resizing, aligning, and centering. See Supported Applet Classes and Applet Web Templates for more information about performing these tasks.

To support the Grid Layout features in the Web Layout Editor, applets must be based on one of the grid layout type applet Web templates. For more information about Grid Layout applet Web templates, see About Grid Layout Templates.

When creating new form applets you can base them on the grid-based templates and use the Grid Layout features in the Web Layout Editor. For more information, see Defining Form Applets.

Applets shipped with the Siebel repository are not based on grid-based applet Web templates. To be able to use the Grid Layout features with these applets, you must convert them to Grid Layout. For more information, see Converting Applets to a Grid-Based Layout.

NOTE:  You can determine if an applet uses a grid-based applet Web template by looking at the Web Template property of the Applet Web Template object type (child object of Applet). If it is a grid-based applet Web template, Grid Layout will appear in the name.


 Siebel Tools Reference
 Published: 20 October 2003