Understanding Pagelet Wizard Display Formats
Pagelet Wizard supports the creation of pagelets based on the following display formats:
Table
List
Chart
Menu
Search list
Passthru
Custom (Extensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL)
Table Display Format
Image: Table pagelet example
The table display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft Query and rowset data sources.
The following screenshot shows a table pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft Query data source:
List Display Format
Image: List pagelet example
The list display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft Query and rowset data sources.
The following screenshot illustrates about list pagelet that displays data from a PeopleSoft Query data source:
Chart Display Format
Image: Chart pagelet example
The chart display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft Query and rowset data sources.
The following screenshot shows a chart pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft Query data source.
Menu Display Format
Image: Menu pagelet example
The menu display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from a navigation collection data source.
The following screenshot illustrates a menu pagelet displaying data from a Navigation Collection data source.
Search List Display Format
Image: Search list pagelet example (Show Results options set to N)
The search list display format is appropriate for creating pagelets that display data from the search record data source. The following examples show search list pagelets displaying data from a search record data source:
Image: Search list pagelet example (Show Results option set to Y)
This example shows the same search list pagelet when the Show Results option has been set to yes.
Passthru Display Format
Image: Passthru pagelet example
The passthru display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the HTML, IB Connector, and URL data sources. Because the passthru display format performs no further transformations on data from the data source, it should be used only with data sources that return HTML that can be directly displayed as a pagelet. The following example shows a passthru pagelet displaying data from an HTML data source:
Custom Display Format
The custom display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet using all data sources that return XML. Generally, most data types return XML, but circumstances potentially occur in which IBConnector, URL, and HTML datatypes do not return XML. In those instances, the custom display format would not be appropriate.
Use the custom display format when you want to use a display format other than the ones expressly listed in Pagelet Wizard. When you select the custom display format, Pagelet Wizard enables you to select a format provided by one of the delivered XSL prototypes, or you can select an XSL template that you created on the Define XSL page.
Image: Custom pagelet example
The following example shows a custom pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft Query data source:
This custom pagelet uses the same PeopleSoft Query data source as the table pagelet example shown previously; however, this example has a custom XSL template applied.