Creating transactional or maintenance pages has never been easier with Orbit!! The new Page Wizard generator walks you through 4 easy steps to help you build a basic maintenance page with the least amount of effort. The wizard puts in place all the most basic components need it to build a transactional page. All you have to do is select your preferences and by the click of a button your page will be generated and ready for production.

 The Page Wizard will guide you through 4 steps to help you choose your preferences for the page that you want to generate. Step 1 will present you with 5 blocks of input fields which purpose is to gather information regarding table, wizard, flag columns, and common columns settings; as well as, saved settings information. Most of the fields are already filled out with default values; only input fields in blue are required to be entered.

The Table and Wizard Settings blocks are the two sections in Step 1 that required the user to enter specific information necessary to build the maintenance page.

Here is where you will specify the name and owner of the table that will drive your page. We will use DEM_ITEMS as our driving table. Enter DEM_ITEMS in the table name field and DEMO in the table owner field.

 In this section, you will tell the wizard which type of wizard page to generate and in which target version to create it. For example: for this case you will select @ENTITY@_MAINT from the wizard page drop down list to indicate that you are building a type transactional page. As the "target version", select TEST for the purpose of this tutorial.

 Now, you need to decide which columns will be displayed on your page. The "Select From List" box on the left shows you all the columns that make up the table specified on step 1; in this case, the table selected was DEM_ITEMS. From this list choose only the columns that you want to display on your page. You can also remove them from the list anytime before saving your preferences.

 On step 2 you selected the columns that will make up your page, now is the time to format those columns the way you want them to appear on your page. By default, step 3 will present you with the list of columns previously selected in the order that you saved them. It will also default the column label and display format based on the column name and type. You can make any changes to ensure that the columns chosen are displayed in the format that you intended.

 The last step of the Page Wizard will show you a report listing your selected saved, table and column settings information. Make sure to review and verify your selections before generating the page. If you need to make any changes, simply click on the links on top of the page to edit any of the previous steps. On the other hand, if all information is correct, click the "generate" link to build your page.

  Once the page is generated, you will see either a success or error message on top of the report page. This is to confirm whether the page was successfully generated or not.

Notice the icons next to the "Target Preview" prompt under the Table Settings section, these are familiar Orbit icons which allow you to preview your page in the browser , look at the orbit source code of the generated page , edit the orbit source code to make any changes to the page , or access the "page drilldown navigator"  to edit or make further changes to your new transactional page.

The generated page is created in the target version specified on step 1. Its name will usually be a variation of the table name driving the page, in this case DEM_ITEMS, follow by a suffix _MAINT which identifies the page type. Click the page preview icon  to view the generated maintenance page. It should look similar to the image shown below.

  The "Load Saved Settings" feature allows you to save previous settings for future development or archive purposes. The Load Saved Settings search page helps you to narrow down your search criteria. The query returns records that match your search in an attractive, user-friendly report format.