Model a Tile 

Purpose

This process describes how to model a tile in the Tile Designer. A tile allows you to display required business data at runtime. For example, you can display the address of a selected customer.

Prerequisites

You have identified required data sources containing the user data that you want displayed during runtime.

Process Flow

       1.      Create a tile with the type you require.

       2.      Add controls to the tile that you require.

You can associate custom resources with unbound image controls. For more information, see Working with the Resource Editor.

       3.      Create a business anchor hierarchy for the tile.

If you want to display information from different data sources, model the business anchor hierarchy associated with these data sources. This allows you to relate information in a tile.

A tile with two business objects, BO Customer and BO Address, associated to it has two corresponding business anchors, customerand address, which display the data on the tile at runtime. To relate the data displayed during runtime, you must create an anchor hierarchy between customer and address business anchors or write a supply function.

       4.      If required, write a script for an interaction component to define a system response for user action. For more information, see behavior definition.

A tile has two text input controls, Quantity Ordered and Total Price. At runtime, whenever the value of Quantity Ordered changes, the Total Price must display the new net price. To achieve this, you write an event handler for the OnValueChanged event for the Quantity Ordered control. The event handler captures the changed value and starts the code that recalculates the price.

       5.      If required, model hyperlinks for controls within a tile. A hyperlink allows you to view related information at runtime.

Result

You have modeled a tile. You can now include it in the required tile set.