Hi, Can you tell me the differences between subpage and secondary page and when to use which ? I need to display about 100 fields of our custom interface record on 4 different pages or tabs (I want the look just like the page with 3 tabs of "Workforce Admin > Personal Info > Biographical > Modify a person"). But I am not sure which page type (subpage or secondary page) would be the best to use. Note: all the fields is coming from the same record.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
BT
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
BT
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Sidharth Ghai replied May 4, 2007
Brian Sub and secondary have totally different contexts. A sub page is utilized where you wanna display/ capture similar information for various entities, for example, capturing an address, for a company or for a person, would need similar information like street address, state county, country etc.. In those situations a sub page would be used, to design once and reuse at multiple places.
A Secondary page is used to display/ capture secondary information about an entity. A secondary page could use various sub pages, but the reverse is not true.
For your case, I don't see any usage of either of the pages as you said its a custom component used to display multiple fields information on several pages, I would go for a subpage having key information displayed on the top of each page and then show relevant information on subsequent pages.
Hope this helps!!
A Secondary page is used to display/ capture secondary information about an entity. A secondary page could use various sub pages, but the reverse is not true.
For your case, I don't see any usage of either of the pages as you said its a custom component used to display multiple fields information on several pages, I would go for a subpage having key information displayed on the top of each page and then show relevant information on subsequent pages.
Hope this helps!!
sg replied May 4, 2007
Modify Person is built using multiple "normal" pages (not sub or secondary pages).
Sub page is generally used for reuse; i.e. you have the same 4 fields appearing the same way on several different pages. Then you'd use a subpage with those fields and include the subpage in all those pages.
Secondary page is used mostly as a pop-up type page to show additional information or to collect additional information.
For your requirement, I'd simply use a component with multiple pages (just like the Modify Person).
One alternative is to make use a grid (if you are going to show data in a grid) and you can use tab separators to show multiple tabs within the grid (don't know what tools you are on but in later tools this is an option).
Sub page is generally used for reuse; i.e. you have the same 4 fields appearing the same way on several different pages. Then you'd use a subpage with those fields and include the subpage in all those pages.
Secondary page is used mostly as a pop-up type page to show additional information or to collect additional information.
For your requirement, I'd simply use a component with multiple pages (just like the Modify Person).
One alternative is to make use a grid (if you are going to show data in a grid) and you can use tab separators to show multiple tabs within the grid (don't know what tools you are on but in later tools this is an option).