Using Aware to create a activity 'wall'

nlarson

So I've been working on an the idea of an activity wall for my app using a custom presentation to create something which looks like the Facebook wall, to present summary contents of a query and take a few actions (Praise, New Task and Comment).

Using a business object group, a custom presentation, and some StartProcess links, I can do all of that no problem, where I am running into an issue is finding a meaningful way to present the child records (Praise, Tasks, or Comments) in a single stream presentation so that users can see comments.

So my questions are: Can a presentation have a sub-presentation? in the same way a report can have a sub-report? If not does anyone have any idea about how to pull this off?

pbrad

Hi,
Yes, a presentation acts pretty much the same way as a report does other than the display is html rather than pdf, the presentation can be interactive but the presentation is a little more finicky to work with respect to overlapping attributes. You should be able to readily create sub-presentations and show them in the main presentation. A few years ago I created a user dashboard that included five or six sub-presentations and was the primary navigational method for the whole application.
Cheers,
Pete

nlarson

That's great. I will try this out today. Thanks!