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Web Component Guide
• Summary — Useful for identifying views that are designed to be small read-only
summaries of data. Often useful for dwell actions.
In addition, you can enter custom purposes in the View Editor using a comma-separated
list in a single text field.
Custom Purposes
You can enter custom purposes, using whatever names you want. Currently, in the View
Editor, the custom purposes are entered as a comma-separated list in a single text field.
No actions are associated with custom purposes in this release. In future releases,
custom purposes are used in various places in the GUI for restricting the list of views
that can be seen to those who have been assigned the same custom purpose.
Roles
For more information, see “Relevant Roles and Allowed Roles” on page 78.
Comments
Creators of view components use this field to communicate information that might be
helpful to other developers in creating similar components.
Context Help
Use this field for context sensitive help text. If the component is a top-level view,
whatever you type here appears in the right action pane under the Help tab.
If the view is within a container and its border is showing, context sensitive help is
available by clicking on the help icon in the title bar.
Context tab
Context packages the values that the page or view requires to present its data. For more
information, see “Context Types” on page 124.
Pages and views are similar to forms waiting to be completed. Their definitions can
specify the type of data that they display, just as a form can require a name or an
address, which are filled in when the form is used. They do not set specific values for
the item(s) that specify the subject of the form. For views, this is provided by the
context data during run time, which is declared in the Context tab and is set in the
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