New User Dialog Wizard

The New User Dialog wizard lets you create a new User Dialog. This can be an HTML Dialog or an Offline Dialog.

The wizard creates several resources for the new User Dialog:

View: The visual component of the User Dialog (different technologies are possible).
Process: The Process contains the logic of the User Dialog.
Data Class: The Data Class holds the data of the User Dialog.
Interface: The Interface list the ways of interaction with other User Dialogs or business processes.

Accessibility

File -> New -> HTML Dialog

Page 1: Dialog Definitions

Project name: Choose the project that your User Dialog belongs to.
Namespace: Enter a namespace for your User Dialog. Use namespaces to group your User Dialogs. The grouping hierarchy is separated by the dot character. This is a similar concept to packages in the Java programming language.
Name: Enter the name of the User Dialog that you want to create.
Dialog Type: Select the type of User Dialog that you want to create.

Tip

Since HTML Dialog as well as Offline Dialog are based on JSF technology, it’s possible to switch between those two dialog types after creation.
View Type: A view type defines how the User Dialog will be constructed. This depends on the dialog type. You can choose if a User Dialog should be created with a css grid, so it acts responsively to the display width or not. If you want to create a reusable HTML component, select type Component.
Layout: The layout can only be changed if you choose HTML Dialog but not Component as the view type. All your templates which are located in your webContent/layouts folder are listed here.

Page 2: Dialog Data

This page provides the functionality to create required configurations for a User Dialog simply and quickly. The starting point is a data class, e.g. the data class of the process that calls the User dialog. Based on this data class, you can create the following configurations:

Start-Method: A start method is created based on the selected In and Out attributes. The necessary parameter mapping will be generated automatically.
Data Class fields: For each selected In/Out attribute a field is created in the Data Class of the User Dialog. The name of the created field is defined in the column ‘Field Name’.
Form (for HTML/Offline Dialogs): For each selected UI attribute, a form field is created in the view, e.g. for a field birthday of type Date, a label and a date picker is generated.

Tip

Create a User Dialog in the context of a User Dialog Process Element: If the New User Dialog Wizard is opened on a User Dialog Process Element, the initial Caller Class will be the class of the calling process and the in/out parameter mapping from the process to the User Dialog and back will be generated automatically.

Tip

Create a User Dialog in the context of a Data Class: If the New User Dialog Wizard is started via the context menu on a Data Class, the initial Caller Class will be the selected Data Class.