Reuse components on SAIL form

Howard over 8 years ago

We in process of transitioning our old forms to SAIL. Almost all of our task forms display the same information in a header, we currently have a rule to generate a HTML table to display this. In SAIL, it looks like you can't display a HTML table. Is there a way to create an interface with this common information and insert it into the corresponding task interfaces?

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0 rodgraham
Certified Lead Developer
over 8 years ago

Create a rule/interface with the common information and call that from all the forms that need to display the information. By splitting sail forms into many rules you make many reusable components
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0 Dastagiri Dudekula over 8 years ago

Step-1: Identify the common data to be displayed on various screens
Step-2: Create an interface/expression rule with suitable section or column layout
Step-3: Create rule inputs to accept data into the interface/expression
Step-4: Implement the logical display of data and save the interface/ expression
Step-5: Configure the interface or rule wherever required with suitable type of data
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0 Howard over 8 years ago

Thanks, I was able to get it to work with these recommendations.
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0 Howard over 8 years ago

Ok, I have another question. Now that I got this to work, this rule interface will be used for most of the forms that we have, the values for the rule inputs are saved into process variables. I changed the ri! to the corresponding pv! variables in a subsequent form and it works. Is this best practice or should I be using the ri! inputs? Thanks.
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0 rodgraham
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over 8 years ago

For me best practice is to use the ri - makes it easier to read and understand, others may disagree
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