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Direct to Web Components

Direct to Web provides nine types of Web pages to perform the tasks shown in Table 1. See "Dynamically Generated Pages" for more information about these tasks.


Table 3-1 Direct to Web tasks
Task Description
Query Allows the user to construct a query for a particular entity.
Inspect Displays a single record of a given entity.
Edit Displays a single record of a given entity and allows the user to change the record and save it to the database.
List Displays several records of a particular entity in tabular form.
Select Displays several records of a particular entity in tabular form and allows the user to choose one of them.
Query all Displays all entities and lets the user construct queries on their attributes.
Edit relationship Adds and removes objects from a relationship.
Confirm Prompts the user to confirm that a record should be deleted.
Error Displays information related to exceptions and other errors.

To render these pages, Direct to Web uses three types of components: Direct to Web templates, Direct to Web reusable components, and property-level components.


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