About Form Layouts That Do Not Use a Grid

This topic describes form layouts that do not use a grid that are available but that no longer come predefined with Siebel CRM. Starting with Siebel CRM version 7.7, most form applets use a grid layout.

The four column form templates define a set of layout regions. A region can include one or more label and field pairs. You can use Siebel Tools to place a control in a region and to resize the control. The four column form includes regions that are different in height. It can accommodate controls that span one, two, or four columns.

Siebel CRM groups these regions. This grouping helps make sure that each region uses only the minimum vertical space that Siebel CRM requires to display it. If Siebel CRM does not map any control to a region, then it collapses this region and moves the next region up in the form.

To create a wide variety of form designs while maintaining only one form template, you can combine horizontally proportioned regions with grouped regions.

The following figure displays the master template for layout regions.

Master Template for Layout Regions. In this image of the master template, there are four columns with regions that span one, two, or four columns.

The following figure includes an example of a layout that Siebel CRM creates from the master template. Each X indicates a region that does not contain any mapped control.

Example of a Layout That Siebel CRM Creates From the Master Template. In this image of a layout using the master template, there are two images: the first is of the master template and the second is of the layout rendered by using the master template. In the first image of the master template, there are regions with mapped controls and regions without mapped controls (with an X through them). There is a combination of regions that span one, two and four columns. This image is connected to the second image by the equals sign. In the second image, the regions that have no mapped controls in the image one template, are not present.

The following figure includes another example of a layout that Siebel CRM creates from the master template.

Another Example of a Layout That Siebel CRM Creates From the Master Template. This image displays a master template with some regions that contain no mapped controls and an example of the layout that results from using the template (regions with no mapped controls do not appear in the layout).

The following figure displays the ID ranges that Siebel CRM uses for the controls that it displays in each region. It is recommended that you configure Siebel CRM to map each control to the lowest ID that is available in each region.

How Siebel CRM Maps Controls for Forms That Do Not Use a Grid. In this image of a template with ID ranges for controls, the following ID ranges appear starting at the beginning of the screen at the near side and ending at the end of the screen: first row: 1296 – 1300, 2296 – 2300; second row: 1301 – 1310, 1801 – 1810, 2301 – 2310, 2801 – 2810; third row: 1311 – 1315, 2311 – 2315; fourth row: 1316 – 13330, 1360 – 1374, 1816 – 1730, 1860 – 1874, 2316 – 2330, 2360 – 2374, 2816 – 2830, 2860 – 2874; fifth row: 1331 – 1335, 2331 – 2335; last row: 1336 – 1340.