Hi,
I had a couple questions regarding custom screens. I am assume that custom screens will also be available at the household record. The custom screens depending on your need could handle bringing up all records if on the household and individual ones if you are on a child record. Am I correct in thinking that?
Another question I have is with custom constituent headers. Will they still be done in infomaker ?
Thanks,
Jon
Custom screens will be available at the household level so you can design (redesign) your screen and data retrieval code to get information for all members of the household if you want. In addition if you are using Infomaker based custom screens, we are providing a custom screen facility for having grouped and ungrouped views of the custom data, just like we do with almost all other constituent screens in v11. (If you want to take advantage of this you just create two datawindows, one grouped and one ungrouped and we provide the functionality to switch between them) Of course if your custom screens are web based, then you can include your own grouping/ungrouping functionality if you want to.
As for custom constituent headers, for v11 they are still rendered only in in Infomaker.
--chuck
Thanks Chuck
Hi Guys,
Thanks, this is really useful info.
I'll be redesigning a few custom screens for v11. I would like to future proof these as much as possible. Should I design these in Infomaker or web based?
If web based, is there a sample web custom screen and framework with the next gen look and feel that I can use as a starting point?
many thanks,
Dara
Hi Dara,
We are doing everything that can be in web based custom screens. I don't know of any css yet but that would be really handy to have or soime sort of style guide. I remember when I created the css for our custom screens I did alot of screen scrapes to get figure out the styles.
Thanks Jon,
My plan was to redesign everything to be web based, but when I saw talk of Infomaker v12.1 I wondered If I should still be doing them with Infomaker. My preference would be web based as I'm not a fan of Infomaker.
I imagine many of us will require the same framework for dB connection for SP calls (or maybe Web Service calls in v11) and pop up screens, edit and delete item buttons, dropdowns from ref tables, etc.
It doesn't make sense for us all to be re-inventing the wheel creating these projects and classes in .NET if there was an approved sample that we could take to copy and modify.
Does such a thing exist or where did you start for your custom web screens?
Also are you planning on continuing with SP calls in v11 or will you use the web services layer?
thanks,
I agree with you I am not a fan of infomaker as well, web pages offer so much more functionality.
To my knowledge there isn't any approved sample. But if you want to check out what we have done , there is a custom screen I shared on task for our outbound call center. It is task #266. It has alot of examples of sdifferent controls being used.
At the moment I am planning on keeping the custom screens as they are with the sp calls. I will have to see how far we can go with custom calls in V11. But I am sure as time gooes on I will be slating screens in to be converted when time permits. Our screens have lots of data coming from multiple sources and ajax calls as well that update the screens based on changes.
I'll check out the solution on TASK.