web application generator

Web applications generated with Code On Time use an in-place form when a user drills in to a master record, such as the selected Supplier in the picture below.

Modal presentation is used for master data views without children and for child data views. The picture below shows the modal form view displayed when a Product is selected in the child data view.

You can change the presentation of a data view using the “Show Modal Form” property.

Start Code On Time web app generator, click on the project name, and press Design. Double-click on Region / Suppliers / container2 / view2 node in the Project Explorer. Uncheck the Show Modal Forms property.

Press OK to save the data view. On the tool bar, press Generate to regenerate the web application.

When the web application opens in your default web browser, navigate to Suppliers page, and select any supplier. Select a product in the child data view, and you will see the record form opened in-place. Users drill into the details of a record in the grid view.

There is also an option in the Project Wizard to control modal presentation of form views for the entire application.

By default, Code On Time web applications use modal forms to display child data views and master data views without children, such as the one in the picture below. (In this example, the data fields in the category are floating in the form, instead of the traditional top-down presentation.)

The Project Wizard allows you to disable this functionality across all application pages.

Start the web application generator, click on the project name, and select Settings. Choose Features option. In the list on the left side of the page, select Form Properties. Uncheck “Show modal forms in master data views without children and in child data views”.

Press Finish to get to the Summary page. Select Refresh to have the generator recreate the pages without modal form views. If any of the pages have been modified, then the changes will not be applied, according to the refreshing conditions.

As this property does not apply to any specific controllers, none of them need to be selected for refresh. Press Refresh, and choose Yes to confirm the operation.

Continue to generate the application.

When the web application opens in your default web browser, navigate  to Customers page, select a customer, and view any order. The data views will drill into form view instead of being displayed in a lightbox style above the list of Orders.

You can also enable or disable presentation of child views on a data view level of individual pages.