Designing Inquiry Pages

You can design pages for inquiry purposes only. Inquiry pages are usually based on search records that extract specific information from different tables to display different views of your database, such as a summary of expenses by department.

To create an effective inquiry page:

  • Make all of the fields display-only.

  • Build in sufficient display control and related field relationships to show relevant descriptions.

  • When using level-based controls, disable the row action buttons so that the user cannot add or delete rows.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Workforce Job Summary inquiry page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Workforce Job Summary inquiry page