Creating & Customizing Views
Views are the grid collection of the records. It will display the various fields available in a form and the data populated for it.
Note :
- The tabular section fields will not be displayed in the list view.
Access Default View
For every forms, a default view is provided which will display the complete set of records added to the form.
To access the default view, please follow the below steps :-
- Navigate to the form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee).
- Click on the Default view Format :
Create New View
A new view can be created for a form, by specifying some criteria/conditions, which will only display the records that matches the criteria.
- Navigate to the form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- In the 'Views' section, click on the '+' symbol to create a new view.
- Specify the view name.
- Expand the 'Specify Criteria' section.
- Fill out the condition, using the form's field.
- Click on 'Save'.
- Set the view permissions as required.
- Use the 'Sort' and 'Group' options as required.
- Select the fields for the view.
Customize View
Customize View option can be used to enable/ disable the fields available in the view and to re-arrange the order of the fields. This option can be selected by clicking on the icon for the default views.
Perform record related actions in the View
- Add Record
- Navigate to the intended form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Click on 'Add Record'.
- Populate the values for the fields.
- Click on 'Save' to submit the record.
- Click on 'Save & New' to submit the record and add a new record.
- Edit Record
- Navigate to the intended form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Mouse over the record that is to be edited.
- Choose 'Edit option'.
- Edit the fields
- Save the record.
- View Record
- Navigate to the intended form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Click on the intended record to view the record details.
- You can also, mouse over the record and select 'View' option.
- Delete Record
- Navigate to the intended form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Mouse over the record and choose 'Delete' option.,
- Mark the record and select the 'Delete' option at the list view header.
For the forms(Except Employee form), it is possible to do a bulk delete if the approval process is not configured and if the mail alert is not configured for Delete action. - View Audit History
To view the audit history, first the required fields of the form must be modified to hold the Audit Information.
- Navigate to the Form's customization page in the Admin account.
- Edit the field for which the audit option is to be enabled.
- Click on 'Options'
- Tick the 'Enable Audit for this field' option.
- Click on 'Done' to save the changes.
Once the audit option is enabled for the required fields, the history can be viewed by :-
- Navigate to the form's listing page.(Eg Organization → Employee)
- Choose and mouse over on a particular record.
- Select 'History' option.
- Print Record
- Navigate to the form's listing page.(Eg Organization → Employee)
- Choose and mouse over on a particular record.
- Select 'Print' option.
- Click on 'Print' in the record page.
- Import Data
- Navigate to the listing page of the form(For Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Click on 'More Actions'.
- Choose 'Import Data' option.
- Browse through the import file(excel/CSV file).
- Click on 'Import File'.
- Map the fields in the form and the columns in the excel.
- Click on 'Next'.
- Confirm the mapping and click on 'Import'
- Export Data
- Navigate to the listing page of the form(For Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Click on 'More Actions'.
- Choose 'Export Data' option.
- Choose the file format (Excel/ CSV file).
- Include the tabular section data if required.
- Click on 'Export'
- Default Views
To view the default view of any form,
- Navigate to the form's listing page.( Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Select the form's default view (like Employee View)
- Create New View
- Navigate to the form's listing page.(Eg. Organization → Employee)
- In the 'Views' section, click on the '+' symbol to create a new view.
- Specify the view name.
- Expand the 'Specify Criteria' section.
- Fill out the condition, using the form's field.
- Click on 'Save'.
- Set the view permissions as required.
- Use the 'Sort' and 'Group' options as required.
- Select the fields for the view.
- Customize View
Customize View option can be used, to enable/ disable the fields available in the view. This option can be selected by clicking on the icon for the default views.
- Deleting View Unused views can be deleted by click on the 'X' icon for the created views.
Field Wise Option in List View :-
- Sort
- Group
- Search
- Hide Column
Access Records based on permission
In the view, the records are displayed based on the permission set for the login user's role for a form.
- All Data- This option is applicable for the users who have access to all the data of a form
- Team Data – This option will be applicable for the users who have permission to view their subordinates data for a form.
- My Data - This option will be applicable for the users who have permission to view only their own records of a form.
Delete View
The unused views created can be deleted by following the below steps :-
- Navigate to the form's listing page.( Eg. Organization → Employee)
- Delete the view created by clicking on 'X' icon .
Note:
- The default views provided cannot be deleted.