4.1.0 Forms Wizard Intro

Abbreviations, used in the manual:

FW - Form Wizard

RDA - Reference Data Admin

RDAD - Reference Data Admin Designer

RDAE - Reference Data Admin Editor

The wizard allows the creation of dynamic forms with rich UI elements and user experience options.

The FW assists the RDAD in defining the dataset that will be presented to the business user at the RDAE module.

The wizard handles the edit form of the data and grid presentation options.

Each form can be linked to one editable table, the presented grid can include complementary data for display only.

In the RDAD module, in FW's grid in a specific Project, you can find a list of all existing FWs with the possibility to add a new one or to edit/delete existing FWs.

Each line in the FWs grid includes the following options:

Edit - edit FW details.

Copy - copy an existing FW.

Delete - delete an existing FW.

Bulk operations - After choosing several FWs (or all of them), you can click on "Bulk Operations" for Bulk Delete or Bulk Copy.

Deploy - Mark the FWs that should be deployed and click the Deploy button.

For more details, please refer to the related manual: RDA, Deploy/ Import

To create a new FW, click the "Add Form" button.

Every FW contains 4 steps:

Step 1 - The table (base for the FW) is chosen from the related Data Source and its properties are defined.

For more details, please refer to the related manual: Form Wizard, Step 1

Step 2 - In charge of the editing UI elements, namely, you will be able to control the values that you want to add or edit to the columns in step 4/RDA Editor, from the table you defined in Step 1.

For more details, please refer to the related manual:

Form Wizard, Step 2

Step 3 - In charge of which elements (columns) will be presented in the final FW, and for the definition of additional settings.
For more details, please refer to the related manual: Form Wizard, Step 3

Step 4 - Step 4 in the RDAD module basically looks the same as the created form in the RDAE module. For more details, please refer to the related manual: RDA Editor