About Grid Form Applet Templates
A grid template simplifies the work of creating the layout of a form applet. Web Tools displays a grid layout template in a graphic interface that includes objects that you relocate from a palette to a work space. The grid layout applet web template, Siebel tag, and other features in the Applet Web Template Editor allow you to modify the layout of a form without directly modifying the underlying applet web template. For more information, see Using Grid Layout for an Applet.
You can do the following with an applet web template that uses a grid. You cannot do this work in an applet web template that does not use a grid:
Use Web Tools to modify the layout of the form without having to directly modify the web template.
Place labels and controls independently in the applet layout. Labels and controls are a single object in the Siebel repository that use one set of shared properties, but you can manipulate them as separate items in the Applet Web Template Editor.
A template that uses a grid does not automatically compress empty space in a column.
A grid layout applet web templates uses the following Siebel tags:
<div od-type="form-applet-layout">
<!--od section form-applet-layout close--> </div>These tags do not use placeholder tags. Instead, they provide a single container that contain all controls in the main body of a form applet. These tags allow you to use the Applet Web Template Editor to configure the layout of a form applet. You must use the Applet Web Template Editor to modify the layout of an applet that uses a grid applet web template.