PrimeObjects improved the presentation, usability and features of the list in a more functional way.

The new list will have 3 zones. The Zone 1 is a Category zone allows user to easily filter records in the list by category. The Zone 2 is the list itself. The Zone 3 is the preview of the selected record that allows read detail information of a record without opening it.



The whole new design relies on one dashboard and four reports in the plaform. It brings the highest flexibility to customization.

Dashboard:

1. Generic List
   

Reports:

1. Generic Category Tree
   
2. Generic List Preview
3. Generic Category Cloud
4. Generic Tag Cloud

The preview content of a list will be shown based on the format defined in "Generic Side Preview" report. However developer can design different preview report for different entity. For example, developer can design a special report called "Sales Order Side Preview" to preview a sales order record in the list.

The following SQL Statement can associate a special report to a entity as the list preview report

UPDATE EntityUI SET PreviewReportId = 'C581C284-A553-434D-9FCD-F86864175708' WHERE Name='Sales Order'

There's a few parameters need to be defined in the url of page that renders the Generic List dashboard.

Parameter Name	Required	Description
EntityName	Mandatory	This tells the entity of the lists.
CurrentFocusId	Optional	Sometimes we want to only show the records filtered by a focused record in the list. For example, we want to show a list of documents regarding a specific Project. In this case Project is the focus when showing the documents. We need to pass the project ID as the value of the CurrentFocusId parameter.
CurrentFocusAttributeName	Optional	This parameter works with CurrentFocusId parameter. When we pass a ID as the filter value, we need to define on which attribute the filter should apply. In the exsample above, the attribute name used to filter a document could be InstanceId attribute of the Document entity.

In a business solution developed on PrimeObjects Platform, the default.aspx page usually is the page rendering a dashboard. The URL of showing a generic list of all documents will be look like this. (note: c26b1d3b-8c72-44cf-9dd3-726a83cf2d9f is the id of the Generic List dashboard).

http://domainname/appname/Default.aspx?EntityName=Document&DashboardId=c26b1d3b-8c72-44cf-9dd3-726a83cf2d9f