Contents of the Create Hub Dialog Box
Use the fields on this dialog box to create a new hub. After you enter the information for a new hub, you can add tabs, grids, and fields to the hub.
After you save a new hub, you can access the information that you originally entered on this dialog box. To do so, select the hub in Screen Designer, in Settings, and click
in the Actions bar on the Screen Designer form.Contents
Field | Description |
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Singular Name | Enter the singular form of the name for the hub. This is the system label that is used throughout Vantagepoint when the singular form of the hub name is needed, such as in reports. |
Plural Name | Enter the plural form of the name for the hub. This is the name that you see for the hub in the Hubs section of the Navigation pane. It is the system label that is used throughout Vantagepoint when the plural form of the hub name is needed. |
Help URL | Enter a URL that links to a custom help file that you created for this hub. The help file launches when users click the Help icon at the top of the hub's screen. |
Automatically include | Select the check box for the standard
Vantagepoint grids and panels that you want to add to the hub. Check boxes are:
After you add and save a new hub, you can clear any of these check boxes on the Hub Preferences dialog box at any time to remove the grids and summary panel from the hub as needed. |
Database Table Name | This field prefills with the singular name that you entered for the hub in the Singular Name field, preceded with UDIC_. This is the internal database table name that is assigned to the hub. You use this name for creating custom reports or advanced workflows for the hub. |
Display in Page Title | Select whether you want the name or number that was entered for a hub record to display at the top of the hub form to identify the record that you have open in the hub.
This setting also determines how the name and number display in the hub's search results list:
You can delete a user-defined hub's name or number field, but not both, from the hub. When you delete one of the fields, the remaining field is automatically selected for the Display in Page Title setting, and you cannot change it. If you select Name and you add three name fields to the hub, all three names display at the top of the hub form. (You can add up to three name fields for a hub record.) The order in which you place the name fields in the hub determines the order in which they appear, concatenated, at the top of the hub form. Vantagepoint looks at the order of the name fields from top to bottom if the name fields are all on the summary panel; from left to right and then top to bottom if the name fields are all on one tab; and from tabs left to right if the name fields are on different tabs. |
Done | Click this button to save the entries on the dialog box and return to the Screen Designer form where you now see the new hub displayed in Screen Designer. You can begin adding tabs, grids, and fields to the hub. Clicking this button does not save the new hub. To save the hub, you must click Save at the top of the properties pane on the Screen Designer form. |