Step 2 Set up the ShowPage web page design

LANSA WAM

Step 2. Set up the ShowPage web page design

WAM060 - Employee Maintenance using Advanced Weblets

1.  Open the ShowPage WebRoutine in the Design view.

     It should look like the following:

2.  Click anywhere in the table containing department code and using the context menu select the Table Items / add Columns… option, to add 3 columns.

a.  Move the section code and its label into the 3rd and 4th columns (top row), using drag and drop.

b.  Drop a push button with image into the 5th cell, top row

c.  Click in the bottom row, and use the context menu, Table Items / Delete Row to delete this row.

d.  Click in the cell containing the section code label, if necessary use the cursor keys to ensure you are in the table cell (<td> tag) and use the Details tab to change its class to caption.

e.  Select the department code label and delete it. Type Department: into the cell

f.  Select the section code label and delete it. Type Section: into this cell.

g.  Select each of the new cells using the cursor keys, and delete the * place holder characters.

3.  Select the push button and set up its properties on the Details tab:

Property

Value

caption

Search

left_relative_image

icons/normal/16/zoom_16.png

on_click_wrname

ShowPage

submitExtraFields

 

Field Name: STDRENTRY
Literal Value: S

 

4.  Select the table and changes its Align property to center. You should be able to click on a corner of the table to select it.

5.  Save your changes

     Your page should look like the following:

6.  Drag and drop a Dynamic Select Box onto the field DEPTMENT, set up its properties as shown:

Property

Value

listname

DEPTS

codeField

DEPTMENT

captionField

DEPTDESC

 

7.  Drag and drop a Dynamic Select Box onto the field SECTION and set up its properties as shown:

Property

Value

Listname

SECTS

codeField

SECTION

captionField

SECDESC

updateWrName

updsects

updateOnFieldChange

DEPTMENT

updateFieldsToSubmit

Field Name: DEPTMENT
Value: Field DEPTMENT

 

     Complete the updateFieldsToSubmit property by clicking on the Ellipsis button in the value column, to open the Design of….Property dialog.

a.  Select DEPTMENT in the Name column.

b.  Select the Field checkbox and enter DEPTMENT in the Value column.

8.  Save your changes.

9.  Execute the ShowPage WebRoutine in the browser.

  • Changing selected department should refresh the section's dropdown list.
  • The Search button should populate the list of employees.