Define a content area

Content areas are dashboards that provide information and editing capabilities to users. They are composed of one or multiple pages with different content. There are different types of content areas:

• Class Independent Content Areas are available via the navigation menu of Alfabet. These content areas provide access to cards, views, and data workbenches. They can serve as general dashboards that users can use to collect their favorite views or they can combine a number of views required for providing a defined functionality.
• Class Based Content Areas are available for each object in the Alfabet database. These content areas provide information about an object and editing capabilities to alter the object. The class based content area opens when a user navigates to an object, for example from a data workbench.

Content areas consist of the following, configurable elements:

• Content Page: Each content area can have multiple pages. These are accessible via tabs in the user interface.

   

• Content Item: A content item is a content element on a content page. It can be one of the following:
  • Property Groups: Only for class based content areas. Property groups provide ReadWrite or Read access to object class properties, depending on the user's access permissions to the object.

     

  • Data Workbenches: Data workbenches provide editing capabilities.
  • Standard Views and Configured Reports: These views provide either graphic or tabular views on data with or without editing capabilities.
  • Cards: Cards are representing indicators or numeric data.

     

• Buttons: All content areas have a standard menu for working with the content area, for example to hide content items or add content items or additional pages. Only class-based content areas can have a toolbar with button interaction to alter the object the content area is about. The buttons displayed in a content area are configurable in the class model.Click her for information about button configuration for object classes.
• Content Repository: Objects in the content repository can be selected by users to add them to a page of the content area in addition to the content you added as default when configuring the content area.