(iPart Gallery > Content folder)
Panels are custom displays of iMIS data that you name, build, arrange in grids, and add to your site. Using panels, your users can browse, edit, add, and delete their data, as you specify:
Panels display within Panel iParts, and this fact lets your users view and edit custom data on the broadest range of browser and platform types that iMIS supports. You can manage your custom data directly and conveniently from the web pages where you place these iParts:
■ Panel Editor (which creates panels and shows one panel)
■ Panel Collection Editor (which combines existing panels into tabbed displays)
You can configure the iParts to let your users add and edit that data directly from their browser page. Your existing user-defined tables (from iMIS Customizer) and your Activity table data is automatically available for you to use and extend in these iParts.
Tip: Panels are shared: when you update one panel, it updates within every iPart that uses it.
In a few clicks from your browser, you can have a new panel that displays the data you want, labeled and made editable as you need: just surf-to-edit, click add content, choose Panel Editor, select (new panel), drag in and arrange your data, then Save and Publish.
Once you have placed a panel iPart into a content record and published it, you can then edit the panel directly: As a system administrator, you see a run-time Design command, which lets you make quick changes to the panel, changes that save and publish for you automatically. For extensive panel work, such as to change the type of data it shows, use surf-to-edit to access all of the content design features.
Panel Editor
Displays a panel of fields from your iMIS database, including User-Defined Fields (UDF) table data as well as existing tables already defined in iMIS Desktop. You can reorder the fields and control whether they are read-only or editable by the users. You can combine fields from different tables, with the exception of multi-instance (multiple data lines per record) tables, which need to display in panels by themselves.
The Panel Editor can also display your own business objects if they have a ContactKey property. When ContactKey is the primary key, Panel Editor treats it as a single-instance table; otherwise, it assumes it to be multi-instance:
Note that this iPart replaces the Contact UD Panel of prior releases.
Panel Collection Editor
Presents tabs of panels that display fields from your iMIS database, including User-Defined Fields (UDF) table data. You can reorder the tabs and control whether the fields are read-only or editable by the users. This iPart replaces the Contact UD Panel Collection of prior releases.
