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New View Element

This dialog appears when you,

• Do any of the following in the Business View Editor:
  • Click Menu > New > Group/Aggregation/Detail.
  • Click New Group, New Aggregation or New Detail.
  • Right-click the business view or a category and select New View Element from the shortcut menu.
• Right-click a business view or a category and click New View Element on the shortcut menu in the Catalog Manager resource tree.

It helps you to add a new view element into a business view, and consists of two tabs: General and Security.

OK

Applies all changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

General

Specifies properties of the view element.

Display Name

Specifies the display name of the view element. An intuitive display name can help end users easily understand the element.

Mapping Name

Specifies the mapping name of the field to which the view element is mapped. Click to select the field.

Type

Specifies the type of the view element: Group, Aggregation or Detail.

Aggregate Function

Available only when the type of the view element is defined as Aggregation. It specifies the function for the aggregation object.

Customized

Available only when the type of the view element is defined as Aggregation. If checked, you can create a custom aggregation by writing a formula.

• Settings
  Opens the Formula Editor to compose a formula using resources in the current business view, which can return an aggregation.

Tip

Specifies the tooltip of the view element, which will be shown when end users hover the mouse pointer over it in the business view resource tree at server runtime.

Description

Specifies the description of the view element.

Security

Specifies user accessibility to elements of the business views in the current catalog data source. For details about options in the tab, refer to the Edit Business View Security dialog.

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