OpenEdge Development:<br />Progress Dynamics Basic Development Creating and modifying template objects

Always create your own template and palette objects. Do not modify the default template or palette objects. Any changes you make to the default objects might be overwritten by changes Progress makes in future releases.

Create a static SmartDataViewer template.

Save it as mySmartViewer.w in the adm2/custom directory and register it in the Repository.

Open the ROM and type template in the Object Type field.

Expand the tree view to show the contents of the Template

Objects node.

Create a new Object using the following values:


Field	Value
Product	MyProduct
Product module	MyProductModule
Object type code	SmartViewer
Object filename	myCustomObjects
Layout	None (00)
Template SmartObject toggle box	Selected

Expand the MyCustomObject node, as shown:

Create a new Object Instance named mySmartViewer. Specify the Object Type as SmartDataViewer and Object Filename as myCustomObjects.

Add the following attributes for mySmartViewer:

TemplateFile — adm2/custom/mySmartViewer.w

TemplateGroup — SmartObject

TemplateLabel — My&CustomSmartViewer

TemplateOrder — 7

(IMPORTANT) Add the new object (MyCustomObjects) to the list of objects defined in your icfconfig file for the tag IDETEMPLATES in a comma-delimited format. Alternatively, you can go to the user preferences by selecting the menu option File

Preferences, and then enter the new template object as a comma-delimited list in the Custom Templates field (for example, *,MyCustomObjects).

Choose Menu

Use Custom from the Object Palette’s menu. The Use Custom dialog box appears. The buttons on the dialog box are disabled when you are working from the Repository and enabled when you are working from the static .cst files.

Choose OK to reload the information from the Repository.

Choose the New icon on the AppBuilder main window. The MyCustomSmartViewer object is available when the New dialog box appears.