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Used in composite portals, a section
containing a Work Area control supports the runtime presentation of work
object forms and worklists. 5.5 GRP-264 K CHEN Two formats are
available:
- Single Document Interface (SDI) — The runtime contents of
the cell are produced by a single harness rule.
- Multiple Document Interface (MDI) — The runtime contents of
the cell are produced be one or more harness rules, each identified by
a tab. One tab is frontmost.
For an example of the MDI Work Area, experiment with the User portal,
a composite portal. This portal has a single space, defined by the
harness rule Data-Portal.WorkUser. The section
Data-Portal.UserCenterPanel defines the Work Area.
Follow these steps to include a Work Area control in a composite
portal. This facility depends on rules of various types:
- The standard HTML property rule WorkArea.
- Optionally, a style sheet saved as a text file rule. (In most
cases, make style changes using the Branding wizard rather
than through a separate style sheet.)
- A section rule that contains the control
- A composite portal. (See How to create a
composite portal.)
Step 1. Drag and
drop the Work Area control
Create a section rule to hold the Work Area control. For the
Applies To class, select @baseclass,
Data-Portal, or a Work- class.
A new section contains an initial layout, in SmartLayout format.
From the Layout tab:
- Add a second layout, of type
Free Form with one
row and one column, below the SmartLayout.
- Delete the original SmartLayout.
- Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Advanced control
group (
) and select
the Work Area control (
).
- Drag the control. When the pointer changes shape to indicate
that you can drop the layout, release the mouse button.
Step 2. Complete
the Cell Properties panel — Top fields
Parameters to the standard HTML property rule WorkArea
control the display.
Field
|
Description
|
| Property
|
Retain the placeholder property
pyTemplateDocumentView. (This property is not
used.)
|
| Control
|
Retain the default Control rule
WorkArea. Click the magnifying glass icon
( ) to enter parameters
for the control. Complete the following parameters:
Parameter
|
Description
|
ID
|
Not used. Leave blank.
|
Tabbed
|
 Select:
No to create a Single Document
Interface control, allowing the user to open only
a single work object form.Yes to create a Multiple
Document Interface control, allowing the user to
open multiple tabbed work objects.
|
Sizing
|
Select
Stretch in most cases to cause the
runtime presentation to expand to the entire height
offered by the enclosing section.
Select Fixed to limit the runtime
presentation to a fixed height in pixels; scroll
bars appear at runtime as needed.
|
| Open by Default
|
 If the
Tabbed parameter value is
Yes, complete at least one row of the
Open by Default array to label and
identify the contents of each tab. Order is
significant.
|
Label
|
Enter brief text to appear as the label of this
tab.
|
Harness Class
|
Identify the Applies To key part
of a harness rule.
|
Harness Name
|
Identify the Purpose key part of
a harness rule.
|
Auto Refresh
|
Select to cause automatic refresh of the runtime
harness display when the user clicks the tab to make
it frontmost.
|
Thread
|
Optional. If the Tabbed
parameter value is No, you can force
execution to occur in a specific requestor Thread.
Enter the Thread name.
Leave blank in most cases to use the default
Thread, Standard.
|
Default Action
|
If the
Tabbed parameter value is
No, select to determine the automatic
processing that is to occur when the section is
initially presented:
None — No automatic
processing; the form area is initially
empty.Display — Present a work
object form.Create New Work — Start a
flow execution that creates a new work
object.Get Next Work — Search for
an appropriate assignment to present to this use
next.
|
If you selected Display for the
Document Action parameter, complete these
additional parameters:
Parameter
|
Description
|
Class Name
|
Identify the
Applies To key part of a harness
rule.
|
Harness Name
|
Identify the
Purpose key part of a harness
rule.
|
Read Only
|
Select to present the runtime harness display in
read-only mode, disallowing all input.
|
Page
|
Optional. Identify a clipboard page name to
support the runtime harness display.
|
Model
|
Optional.
Identify the second key part — Model
Name — of a model rule to provide
initial values on the clipboard page. To find this
model at runtime, the system uses the Class
Name value as the first key part.
|
Parameters
|
Optional. You can pass parameter values to
sections within the harness using a special
syntax:
paramname1=paramvalue1;
paramname2=paramvalue2; ...
where paramname is the
parameter name and paramvalue is
a literal constant within double quote characters,
or a property reference of the form
pagename.propname. For example:
Length="20";
Width=pyWorkPage.Width;
|
If you selected Create New Work for the
Document Action parameter, complete these
additional parameters to identify the starter flow:
Parameter
|
Description
|
Class Name
|
Identify the
Applies To key part of a flow rule
that creates a new work object, as a literal value
or a property reference.
|
Flow Name
|
Identify the
Flow Type key part of a flow rule
that creates a new work object, as a literal value
or a property reference.
|
Parameters
|
Optional. You can pass parameter values to the
flow rule using a special syntax:
paramname1 = paramvalue1;
paramname2=paramvalue2; ...
where paramname is the
parameter name and paramvalue is
a literal constant within double quote characters,
or a property reference of the form
pagename.propname. For example:
Length="20";
Width=pyWorkPage.Width;
|
If you selected Get Next Work for the
Document Action parameter, complete an
additional parameters:
Parameter
|
Description
|
Parameters
|
Optional. You can pass parameter values to the
Work-getNextWorkObject activity (or
your activity built to perform such processing)
using a special syntax:
paramname1=paramvalue1;
paramname2=paramvalue2; ....
where paramname is the
parameter name and paramvalue is
a literal constant within single quote characters,
or a property reference of the form
pagename.propname. For example:
Length="20";
Width="200";
|
|
| Behavior
|
Leave blank. Not used.
|
3. Complete the
Cell Properties panel — General tab
4. Complete the
Cell Properties panel — Advanced tab
About Harness rules
About Section rules
Harness and Section forms