Presentation Display problem

mjshen

I created a presentation for a query, which is supposed to display some arrtibutes combined from two BOs ( The two BOs has parent-child relationship). I found the presentation desinger is quite difficult to use, and the appearance of displayed result ( the table) is difficult to keep coherence with the system's standard presentation.

Questions:

Is there any solution to display arrtibutes combined from two BOs except using self-defined presentation?
Can AwareIM provide a wizard which only needs users to input attributes or sub-presntations, then display the query result just like using the standard presntation( can limite to display text in table, two layers of reference) ?
Can AwareIM render self-definded presentation the same as standard presntation which has 'Export query result', 'filter query result', and 'print query result' functions?

Thanks,
Mojun

kklosson

mjshen,

Your problem is not perfectly clear to me but it sound like you want to display what is typically called a view or in MS speak, a query - joined tables. To view or display an attribute from a parent BO, create a shortcut in the child BO. Then a straight forward query should present anything you need from both BOs.

mjshen

Thanks a lot. Yes, exactly I'd like to display a view or joined tables. I have thought to use shortcut in child BO for the attributes from parent BO. But some probelms still bother me:

have to create shortcut in child BO for all parent BO's attributes to be displayed. Sometimes, it is too many.
unable to display as the structure of one parent with multiple children (i.e, with sub-view of child BO).

Any suggestions to solve the problem?

Thanks,
Mojun

kklosson

Well, you can only display so much in a query anyway. It sounds like you would like the user to be able to pick the attributes to display from a rather long list of attributes. I think this is your biggest challenge. Your desire to list this much information in a query result makes me think you might need a different approach but I don't know your problem well enough to offer a suggestion.

Happy to advise if you care to explain fully.

mjshen

Thank you for the reply. Your are right. One of my challenges is to enable users to pick the attributes to dynamically display what they want, just like the 'New Query' function in 'Search Object' in AwareIM Standard menu. However, I did not find AwareIM to provide templet/widzard to implement it.

Another big challenge is to display the a parent with multiple children structure (i.e, a view with sub-view of child BO). I'd like to build query on parent BO to display part of parent's attributes with all Child BO's attributes in a sub-table. Is there any way to display the result without using self-defined presentation?