Perspectives and Layouts¶
The primary screens in the DBUI are the List, Edit, and View screens. When we are looking at one of these screens, we are in fact looking at Business Object data from a particular perspective.
A *perspective* has a name, and contains the information about what fields to show and how to lay them out, what actions and buttons to display, any filtering and sorting to apply, and so on.
You can always tell the name of the perspective you’re looking at by looking at the end of the URL:
/list/BusinessObjectClass/PERSPECTIVE_NAME
/view/BusinessObjectClass/OBJECT_ID/PERSPECTIVE_NAME
/edit/BusinessObjectClass/OBJECT_ID/PERSPECTIVE_NAME
List Perspectives¶
View and Edit Perspectives¶
Editing Perspective Data Directly¶
Perspectives are stored in the database as *Config* Business Objects, with keys named as follows:
sys.dbui.perspective.PERSPECTIVE_NAME.BusinessObjectClass
Perspective data can be viewed and edited directly by going through the DBUI Developer Menu, under *DBUI Customization* -> *Perspectives*