Customizing the Creation Wizard - Forms

Problem

You are not satisfied with the default PPP customizing and would like to change the Creation Wizard Form Steps.

A new BRF+ application according to Creation of Customer BRF+ Application has been created and a Text for various cases according to Translation of BRF+ Text Values has been added.

PPP BRF+ Customizing

Open your BRF+ Application and navigate to the expression table “Creation Step” (Technical Name: CREATION_STEP).

Step ID: Enter any ID for your Step. This is later used to define, which fields are shown for this Step and which Steps are before and after.
Creation Type: Choose FORM (F4 Help). This determines, which expression tables are used later on by PPP.
Title Text ID: Enter any Text ID (Used in “Translatable Texts”, Technical Name: TEXTS). The Text of the Text ID will be used as the Title of the Creation Step.

Example of one Graphical Step and three Form Based Steps:

Open your BRF+ Application and navigate to the expression table “Creation Form Steps” (Technical Name: CREATION_FORM_STEPS).

Step ID: Enter the STEP_ID from the expression table “Creation Step” (Technical Name: CREATION_STEP).
Bucket ID (Optional): Enter a Bucket ID, if the creation is supposed to be narrowed down, depending on the already entered input.
Item Type (Optional): Enter an Item Type, if the creation is supposed to be narrowed down, depending on the already entered input.
Next Step ID: Enter any STEP_ID from the expression table “Creation Step” (Technical Name: CREATION_STEP). This Step is then shown after completing the current Step.
Result ID: Enter any Result ID (Used in “Creation Result Buckets”, Technical Name: CREATION_RESULT_BUCKETS; “Creation Result Datasets”, Technical Name: CREATION_RESULT_DATASETS; “Creation Result Item Types”, Technical Name: CREATION_RESULT_ITEM_TYPES; “Creation Result Project Templates”, Technical Name: CREATION_RESULT_PROJECT_TEMPLA). This ID will be used for predefined Resultsets to choose from. More Info in: Customizing the Creation Wizard - Results

Example of three different Steps with their according following Step:

Open your BRF+ Application and navigate to the expression table “Form Control Creation Step” (Technical Name: FORM_CONTROL_CREATION_STEP).

Step ID: Enter the STEP_ID from the expression table “Creation Step” (Technical Name: CREATION_STEP).
Bucket ID (Optional): Enter a Bucket ID, if the creation is supposed to be narrowed down, depending on the already entered input.
Item Type (Optional): Enter an Item Type, if the creation is supposed to be narrowed down, depending on the already entered input.
Section ID: Enter any ID for your Section. This Section ID has to exist in the “Section Control” (Technical Name: SECTION_CONTROL) expression table.
Section Headline Text ID: Enter any Text ID (Used in “Translatable Texts”, Technical Name: TEXTS). The Text of the Text ID will be used as the Header of the Form.

Example of multiple Sections being linked to Steps:

Follow this guide: Customizing Fields - Forms, Sections and FieldGroups and ignore Step 3: Assigning Sections to a Form.

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