Apps and development tools - Basic App Kit

A view is defined by XML. The format in general is

If a storage should show more then one view, the <view>s is embedded into a <views> tag:

For a details description of the view attributes see the <view> reference and <views> reference.

View Body:

The body of the view tag defines 

• What documents should be shown in the view
• Optional groupchange
• What columns should be rendered

In general the view body contains the following section:

For a details description see the sub tags of <view>.

Document selection:

The db-query is calculated based on the document selection tags:

<select>, <filter>, <search>, <orderby>

Each of this tags is optional and has a default value. 

In case of query-type="hql" (the default) the resulting query is:

In case of view query-type=="custom" the db-query is completely used from the <view>'s <query> tag.

in case of query-type="lucene" the resulting query is:

Group-change:

• <grouchange>{TMLScript expression}</groupchange>
  Defines a groupchange between the view rows.

Column definition:

• <col {col-attribites}>{TMLScript expression or script}</col>
  Defines the colums of the view

Sample: