
Configuring Views and Context 121
Configuring Views
External URL lets you set any URL address as the link target. If you set the external
URL to the string {url} the system looks in the context for a key URL and uses its value
as the URL to go to. This is useful in conjunction with a template allowing you to
customize the URL with runtime data from vFoglight.
Show Help
This choice is used to launch the help associated with a specific help key. This choice is
useful for connecting alarm states or in deciding what to do with a particular section of
the help. Note that you can connect a particular view, as long as it is a page or has a
visible title bar, to the JavaHelp mechanism via a context ID.
Layout Tab
The Layout tab is used in the Fixed Layout and Grid containers. The tab contains a
layout frame. At the top of the frame is a toolbar with these functions:
• Add—an existing component to the layout.
• Define Customizer—for placing a link to a view in the General tab of the action
panel.
• Properties—the placement properties dialog for the selected component.
• Inspect—the chosen component by opening it in the Definitions pane.
• Remove—the selected component from the layout.
The Layout frame shows the views that are on the container and their approximate sizes.
The guide lines in the background show you how the views would fit in browser
windows with different screen resolutions.
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