Creating a Presentation

In Studio, you can build a presentation quickly by using the Presentation Wizard.

To create a presentation, you should already have defined a BPM Object with one or more attributes.

To create a presentation:

  1. In the Project Navigator, right-click on the BPM Object (BPM Object icon 
				) you will create the presentation for, and click New > Presentation (Presentation icon 
				). The Presentation Wizard appears.
  2. Enter the name of the new presentation in the Presentation field.
  3. You want your presentation to be based on the BPM Object. To select this, check the From Template checkbox. Do not check the BPM Preferences checkbox.
  4. Click Next. The Presentation Referenced Attributes page of the Presentation Wizard appears.
  5. In this dialog box you select the attributes which will be shown as fields in the presentation. Select the attributes that you want the user of this presentation to see or edit.

    The fields will be placed in the presentation as they are ordered in the attribute list. You control this order either by adding each attribute in the desired sequence, or by selecting an attribute in the list and using the Up and Down buttons to place it in the proper position.

  6. Click Finish. The new presentation is created, and a presentation editor is opened with it.
  7. Make sure the Properties window is open in Studio. It should be on the right side. If not, open it by clicking Window > Show View > Properties from the menu.
  8. By default, each attribute is added to the presentation as an input field. If you don't want the user to enter or edit an attribute value, select it in the presentation editor and go to step 9. Otherwise continue to step 10. The properties for the text field appear in the Properties window. The Name property of the text field should be items_text2.
  9. Set the Editable property to No simply by clicking on the property.
  10. Save your changes.
  11. You can preview what the presentation will look like. To do so, click on the HTML Preview (HTML Preview icon 
				) icon in the presentation editor.

    An HTML preview of the presentation is displayed in your browser.

  12. Close the presentation editor.