Defining Home Pages with a Text Editor

Basic Structure of a Home Page Descriptor

A simple home page might hold one row of panels. Panels display either tasks or controls, such as a favorites control or a chart control.

In the descriptor file, each panel is defined with a <bucket> element.

The home page descriptor for the page above looks like the XML below.

A home page has:

• an outer <navigation-page /> tag
• at least one <row /> tag
• at least one <bucket /> tag to define a panel. The <type> option determines if the panel holds:
  • Favorites (type="favorites")
  • Process Tasks (type="process")
  • Application-Specific Items (type="app-specific")
    • Horizontal Bar Chart
    • Metric Values Chart (a type of horizontal bar chart)
    • Process Metric Scorecard
    • Metric Alerts Scorecard
    • Maps
      

Note that the colors for the backgroundShading option are determined by \schema\ab-core\page-navigation\css\quiet.css. You can set light, medium, and dark for the default color as well as for these colors: grey, ochre, blue, light blue, red, green, purple, aqua, and orange

Rows

The <row /> tag groups panels into rows:

<row height="half">

• height. How high all panels in the row are. The values are full, half, and three-quarters.

Page dividers

A home page can also have a divider between its rows. This is set with the <page-divider /> element. As with a panel, you can set the divider's <title> and <backgroundShading>. In the below image, "In Depth" is a page divider.