Dashboard control: Automatic Application Features (AAF)

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Dashboard control: Automatic Application Features (AAF)

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AAFs in the Windows applications

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Dashboard control: Automatic Application Features (AAF)

Overview

The Dashboard control proposes several Automatic Application Features (AAF) allowing the user to benefit from all control capabilities. These features are available for the Windows applications, the WEBDEV sites and the Mobile applications.

AAFs in the Windows applications

Overview

By default, the Dashboard control proposes to the user to:

Switch to modification mode: the modification mode allows the user to configure his dashboard.
Save the content of Dashboard control in image format.

When the user switches to "modification" mode, he can configure the different elements found in his dashboard:

You can:

hide an element,
add an invisible element,
restore the initial configuration.

The edit mode can also be used to modify the position and size of elements.

The features of popup menu

Save as (image): This feature is used to save the content of Dashboard control in image format (to print it for example).
Switch to modification mode: This feature is used to switch to modification mode in order for the user to configure his dashboard.

The Edit/Modification mode of Dashboard control

The following options are available in the popup menu in modification mode:

Add: This option opens a sub-menu that displays the list of Widgets made invisible and that can be added.
Hide: This option is used to hide the current Widget.
Restore initial configuration: This option is used to restore the dashboard to its previous status (before the modifications performed in edit mode). All the modifications performed (size, position, hiding, addition) are canceled.

The Modification mode can be configured by programming:

DashMode is used to:
- find out whether the Modification mode is enabled or not,
- enable ot disable the modification mode,
- configure the available actions in modification mode. You can for example allow the Widgets to be moved and resized only.
AAFDisable (or DisableAAF) associated with the aafDashEditMode constant allows you to disable the popup menu used to switch to modification mode.