Scaffolding screens
Screen scaffolding is based on the platform's ability to infer the two types of base screens normally needed by an entity: listing and detailing.
Basically, the system is so well designed that we just drag and drop the intended entity onto the canvas of a flow and it automatically creates the list and detail pages related to the respective entity and predictable fields. We may of course have to make some adjustments to the rules and visible fields.
Figure 8.7 – Drag and drop an entity to the UI flow canvas
All widgets and base functionality are created automatically, such as listing ordering, pagination, direct links to details, back functionality, mandatory fields – all that!
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In cases of simplistic scenarios, where entities are exposed without being just read-only or if the entities belong to the same frontend module (by default, this is not good architecture, but everything depends on the use case), scaffolding...
