Creating an Anchor Hierarchy for a Tile Set  

Use

An anchor hierarchy in a tile set establishes a relationship between two of its member tiles. The result of this action means that the data displayed in one tile determines that data displayed in the related tile. Anchor hierarchy at the tile set level defines the relation between and among the data displayed in various tiles.

In the Customer Orders tile set, you have included the Customer and Orders tiles.

At runtime, you want the Orders tile to display orders created only for the selected customer, rather than displaying all the orders in the database. You create a business anchor hierarchy for the tile set as displayed below.

 Customer business anchor

      Order business anchor

In this example, the Customer business anchor is the parent and the Order business anchor is the child.

Prerequisites

·         You have:

·         Identified the data sources associated with the tiles

·         Determined whether or not a business relation between the business objects exists

You can find this information in the Document Outline window, Anchors view.

·         Identified which business anchor is the parent and which is the child

The data source associated with the parent anchor must be a business collection or a business query.

·         Switched to the required change list

Procedure

       1.      In the Solution Explorer, expand the Tile Sets folder, click the tile set for which you want to create business anchors with the secondary mouse button, and choose View Anchors.

The Anchor Designer window appears.

       2.      If required, drag the tile business anchors (one at a time) and drop them on the tile set business anchor.

       3.      Drag the child business anchor and drop it on the respective parent business anchor.

If the same data source is associated to two tiles, then you must create the anchor mapping between the anchors of these tiles. To do this, drag the anchor of one of the tiles from the <Tile set>pane and drop it on the anchor of the other tile in the Business Anchors pane.

       4.      Click the business anchor hierarchy with the secondary mouse button and choose Set Supply Function.

The Set Supply Function dialog box appears.

       5.      In the Supply Type field, select the supply type that you want to use for the child business anchor. The following table provides information about each type.

If …	Then …
The data source associated with the parent business anchor is a business query and the data source associated with the child business anchor is a business collection	Select Query Result.
A business relationship between the business objects of the parent and child business anchors exists	1.       Select Relation. 2.       In the Supply Relation field, enter the name of the business relation.
No business relationship between the business objects of the parent and child business anchors exists	1.       Select Global or Local. 2.       Write a supply function.

If there are more than two business anchors in a tile set, repeat steps 2 through 5.

       6.      Save the tile set.