The Entity List View component displays a list view in the dashboard part. (Use the View Container Component if you want to display a Chart, Calendar, Pivot Table, Pivot Grid, Map, or Gantt view.)
Note that to maximize the space available for list views on a dashboard, the Status Bar is only displayed for list views that have paging enabled and exceed the page size. Info:
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You can drag and drop an existing view into any personal dashboard without having to open the Dashboard Options dialog. See |
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Follow these steps to configure a part to use this component:
- On the General tab of the Dashboard Parts form, select the the Entity List View component component from the the Component field field.
- Select the the Properties tab. Entity List View Properties tab.
- Enter a caption in the the Caption field field.
- The specified caption appears above the view on the dashboard.
- The specified caption appears above the view on the dashboard.
- In the the Entity field field, enter the service whose records you want to display in the view.
- For example, if you want to show Persons records in the view,
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- enter Persons
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- in the Entity field.
- in the Entity field.
- Select a a View Type:
- Link to Existing View: Use this option to display an existing view in the part.
- Custom SQL View: Advanced users can use this option to specify their own SQL statements.
- Do one of the following depending on which option you selected for View Type:
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- the View
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- field, enter the list view that you want to display in the part.
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- the SQL View
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- tab, enter your SQL statement to define the view records.
- tab, enter your SQL statement to define the view records.
- Click the the New Record Parameters tab tab and specify any field information that you want to automatically populate when a user opens a new record from the view (for advanced users only).
To specify default parameters for new records opened from the view, use this syntax:
PARAMS(Field1=Value|Field2=Value)
- For example, to automatically populate a new Persons record's Title and Ranking fields with
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- Purchasing Manager
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- 5
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- enter PARAMS(Title=Purchasing Manager|Ranking=5)
- enter PARAMS(Title=Purchasing Manager|Ranking=5)
- Click Click OK to to save the Dashboard Parts record.