The Multi Entity grid displays information about the relationship between the records in two services and allows users to easily add, modify, or delete these relationships. For example, the figure below illustrates the multi entity grid that is included on the Employees form's Skills tab where the Skills records are the rows and the current employee is the single column in the grid. The individual cells in this case identify if the employee is linked to a particular skill (that is, the cells represent actual or potential EmployeeSkills sub-type records). These Employee/Skills relationships can easily be created or deleted by adding or removing a check mark from the appropriate cell.
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- Two Cell Modes: The cells of a multi entity grid can use one of two modes:
- Check Box: This option identifies if a relationship exists between the row record and the column heading. For example, in the example above, Tim Jones has a check mark in the Management column, which indicates that an EmployeeSkills record exists to track this relationship.
- Data Entry: This option displays a value from the corresponding record that can be added, edited, or deleted directly within the column's grid. For an example of this implementation, see the Culture Strings form's Local Strings tab. The multi entity grid on this tab displays values from the Local String field of the sub-type record, so a user can easily add new localized content for the Culture String in one or more cultures. See "Working with Culture Strings" in the Admin Guide for for more information.
- Support for Two Display Locations: The Multi Entity Grid control is both a form component and a dashboard component, which means you can add it to dashboard and to forms. See Configuring the Multi Entity Grid Component for information on how to add the multi entity grid to a dashboard.
- Double-click to Open Records: Double-clicking a row heading, column heading, or within a cell opens the corresponding record.
- Toolbar: The multi entity grid contains a toolbar with these options:
- Open: This button opens the corresponding record for a selected row, column, or cell.
- Refresh: Clicking this button refreshes the grid. If you make a change to a cell and the change does not reflect immediately, click the Refresh button to display the latest data.
Help: If the sub-type entity linked to the grid's cells has on-line help, clicking this button opens the on-line help file in the appropriate location.
Info The dashboard implementation of the multi entity grid includes a Refresh button its toolbar. This button is not applicable when the multi entity grid appears as a tab on a form (so the button is not available)
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