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July 2008 [Cradle 5.7]

Web Access

Due to a change introduced in Cradle-5.7, if you have any custom forms you must add the following line to the bottom of the forms before the end body tag:

<SCRIPT language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
TheWebaFrame.bItemCommandLockOpen = true;</SCRIPT>

If you don’t do this, after you have opened an item the first time, and go back to a view to open a second item, you would have to reset Web Access to open this item.

Cradle-5.7 introduces a new capability for Microsoft SharePoint®. This initial presence inside SharePoint provides you with four separate web parts which can be deployed into the solution of your choice. The four web parts are:

  • Cradle Login
  • Cradle Login (via Properties)
  • Cradle Show Item

  • Cradle Show Query

When logging in to Web Access there is now an option to choose a web UI if one is available. This option overrides the default UI or your specified user type:

The Query dialogue has been enhanced both due to model hierarchies and also to allow querying that matches a specified query. A new Item Chooser dialogue has been introduced:

Web Access UIs now allow nested queries to retrieve linked information, for example:

Change histories can now be viewed for items within a form or a view. The default web UIs supplied with Cradle-5.7 include the ability to view change history within forms. To view the change history, select the History tab from the open item:

We provide two separate views for change history: Summary View (this is the default and is shown initially and shown above). The second view is the Details View and this is shown below:

A further addition to change histories is that you can now add change comments when saving an item:

If the Mandatory Comments checkbox is selected in Project Setup, you must enter a change comment here. If you don’t the item is not saved.

The Linker screen can now be customised to be as complex or as simple as you need for your project. This is achieved by using the linker-config.js file. Although this file should not be edited directly as it is the default linker file for all UIs, a copy of it should be made and used when making a customised UI.

The full instructions of how to customise the Linker are in the linker-config.js file. Examples of a customised Linker screen are:

Web Access now supports the LDAP mode where the user enters a valid LDAP username and password. If LDAP login is successful, access to the tool is granted:

You can directly login to Web Access which is useful for embedding Web Access in an iFrame or from generated URLs from an external environment. Cradle-5.7 has extended the direct-login capability to allow you to run a query.