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Advanced Tools can be found inside the Form Builder, Datalist List Builder, Userview Builder UI Builder as well as the Process MapperBuilder.
Addon Builder plugins also have access to this feature.
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เครื่องมือขั้นสูง (Advanced Tools) สามารถพบได้ภายในตัวสร้างฟอร์ม (Form Builder) ตัวสร้างDatalist (Datalist List Builder) เช่นเดียวกันใน ตัวสร้างUserview (Userview UI Builder) |
Get Started
The easiest way to see how to access the Advanced Tools is to use the existing built-in App Expenses Claims. Here are the steps:
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3. Click on Expense Claim New and you will be directed to the Form Builder.
4. Click on on Advanced Tools on at the top.
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5. In Advanced Tools, you will find 10 icons in all the builders mentioned with the exception of Form Builder and Process Mapper (see Figure 3).
- In Form Builder, the additional tabs are Table and Tooltip.
- In the Process Builder, there is are only seven tab which excludes tabs that exclude the Permission, Usage, Table, and Tooltip but includes include XPDL.
6. The table below shows the comparison of Advanced Tools between the builders.
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Showing Advanced Tools
As mentioned in the get getting started section. To reveal the advanced tools, the advanced tools button can be clicked.
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The tree viewer in the first tab provides the app designer with the overall structure/definition view so that one can easily spot any anomaly and fixes it immediately without too much hassle and time spent. If the label of the element is empty, it will show the ID instead. Else, it will show the label.
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第一个选项卡中的树状查看器为应用设计人员提供了整体结构/定义视图，以便人们可以很容易地发现异常并立即修复，而不会花费太多的麻烦和时间。 |
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The X-Ray is a feature that provides a an overall view of what a structure consists of, what is the type and ID of the structure. For example, in Figure 8, it is shown that there are 4 types of object objects in the section:
- Section
- Column
- Custom HTML
- Calculation Field
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As the structure is top down, in Figure 8, it can be translated as the Section being the parent of two Columns and the ID of the parent is being the section3. The first columns column contains a Custom HTML type where the ID is field6_1 and the second columns column contains a Calculation Field Type where the ID is total.
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Visibility controls differ based on Builder types (see Figure Figures 11, 13 & 14)
Figure 13 List Builder Permission
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For the List Builder, determine which column/filter is visible. Additionally, determine which columns is are visible during export.
For the UI Builder, additional permission can be set at the Userview UI Category element.
Usages
Figure 15: Usages
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In the second tab, the app designer can inspect where the current entity is being used. From the screenshot example above, we can tell that the form is being used in another form and also being part of a workflow process. With such a feature, the app designer will be able to manage the form design well within the scope of its usagesusage.
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The table tab is available in the Form Builder. With this feature, the app designer can tell on which other entity is sharing/writing into the same database table the current form is currently pointing tooto. From the screenshot example above, we can see that the table is being accessed by multiple process tools and forms. We can also click on the Show Table Usage In Other Apps to check if there are other apps that are writing to the same table too. At the bottom of it, existing table columns are listed down for the app designer's reference.
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The diagrams can be clicked to reveal more detailed information about the table such as which forms uses use the table and what part of the table is having a relationship with other tables.
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Describes what kind of relationship it is having has with another entity.
Figure 18: Relationship Description Feature
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Labels defined in the builder will be automatically listed down here for tooltip purposes. We can define it in as many languages as we want to.
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Figure 24: Diff Checker
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The Diff Checker capability makes collaborative works work possible without losing the modifications done by other teammates who are working on the same entity at the same time. In this section, one can tell which are the changes that have been made since the initial first load of his/her builder against the copy in the server. Click on the the Merge & Update button will ensure that all modifications are merged.
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The screenshot is a feature that takes a screenshot of what it will look like in the UserviewUI. The screenshot can be downloaded by clicking the Download button located at the top right corner. This is useful for instance, sharing the design or look and feel to a client or even an employer.
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