User Guide
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • About 4WS.Platform
      • Architecture
      • Enterprise Edition
      • Tech specs and requirements
      • Warp SDK
    • Creating a web application
  • Core features
    • Tables
    • SqlTool
    • Definition of Data models and Relations
      • Relations
      • Reverse Engineering
      • Custom Fields
    • Defining business components
      • What are business components
      • Business components to fill-in panels
      • Creating business components
        • By a datastore entity
        • By a MongoDB collection
      • Defining Custom Java Business component
    • Defining the UI
      • App Designer
        • App Designer Menu
        • Definition of additional data sources
        • Panel containers and layouts
          • Tab panel
          • Alternative panel
          • Accordion panel
          • Vertical orientation panel
          • Horizontal orientation panel
          • Columns panel
          • Table panel
          • Generic panel
          • Responsive panel
        • Window content
          • Grid Panel
          • Form Panel
          • Filter Panel
          • Tree Panel
          • Google Map Panel
          • Preview Panel (old Image panel)
          • Tree + Grid Panel
          • Image Gallery
        • Windows list
        • Panel definition
          • Columns properties
          • Controls properties
          • Filter properties
          • Supported components
        • Variables
        • Code selectors
          • When not to use a dynamic combo-box
        • Smart Filter and Advanced Filter
        • Multi Value Combobox Filter
        • Multi Value Tree Filter
        • Buttons
        • Translations
          • Translations about GUI components and internationalization settings
          • Data coming from database
          • Custom code and translations
        • Application Menu
        • Bulk import binded to a grid
        • Range Date Filter
      • Web Interpreter
        • Grid components
        • Detail forms
        • Other components
        • Other features
          • Chat
        • Global variables
          • Client-side global variables
          • Server global variables
        • Forgot Password
    • Working with users and roles
      • Rule for roles
      • Permissions Administrator
    • Wizard
      • How to add a checkbox grid to select one or more rows
      • How to load a second grid when clicking on a row from the first grid
      • How to load a form when clicking on a row of the grid
      • How to open a window when double clicking on a row of the grid
      • How to open a window with right click on the popup menu
      • How to open a window when pressing a button on the grid toolbar
      • How to load a grid after loading a form
      • How to open a window when pressing a button on the form toolbar
      • How to load a grid when clicking on a tree node
      • How to load a form when clicking on a tree node
    • Defining events
      • Panel events
      • Column events
      • Control events
      • Filter events
      • Timer events
      • Start-End event
    • Server-side Javascript & Web Service
      • Server-side Javascript
      • Grid component filled by a server-side JS
      • Detail component filled by a server-side JS
      • How to define a server-side JavaScript action
      • Web service
  • Setting up the environment
    • How to install
    • Application parameters
    • Global parameters
  • Modules
    • Reports & Charts
      • Jasper Report + iReport
      • Online report
      • Docx templating
      • Charts
      • Pivot Grid
      • Multidimensional pivot grid
      • Data Export from SQL query
    • SSO
      • Identity management in Platform
        • Identity management on the internal Platform database
        • Identity management based on Google SSO
      • LDAP
        • LDAP support
        • Identity management based on LDAP and database
        • Identity management based on an embedded LDAP server used by Alfresco and or Activiti
        • Identity management based on a remote LDAP server to connect to Platform on the cloud
        • Connecting an LDAP server to Activiti BPM
        • Connecting an LDAP server to Alfresco ECM
      • Google SSO
        • Google SSO
        • Google OAuth2
        • Identity management based on Google SSO
      • Custom SSO
      • Firebase
    • Mobile
      • Mobile introduction
      • Offline vs Online
        • Server side features
        • Server side functionalities
        • Server side Platform features
        • Mobile app features
      • Mobile side specifics
        • Customizations
          • Custom theme editor
        • App Menu
        • Window content
          • Detail scrollable form
          • Scrollable paginated grid
          • Constraint layout
          • Constraint panel
          • Collection grid view
          • Preview panel (mobile)
        • Form Controls
      • Reference guide
      • Cleaning up data
      • How to
      • App deployment
        • App deployment for the iOS platform
        • App deployment for the Android platform
      • Style properties
      • Appendix : Synchronization flow
      • Translations
    • GSuite
      • Introduction
      • Client-side integration
      • GMail
      • Calendar
      • Drive
      • Contacts
    • Google Cloud Platform
      • Datastore
        • Google Datastore Introduction
        • How to create Datastore entities
      • Google Cloud Storage
    • Scheduler
      • Scheduler Introduction
      • Process settings
        • How to define a sequence of consecutive processes
        • How to define a Custom Java Business component
        • How to define a Grid Data Import
        • How to define a server-side Javascript action
      • Email notifications
      • Process executions
      • Manually start a scheduled process
      • Process input parameters
    • Queue Manager
    • Log & Analysis
      • Application Log
      • Log statistics
      • App analyzer
      • Table log
      • Threads
      • Sessions and heap memory
      • Heap memory analysis
      • Access Log
      • Datastore statistics
      • Total monthly costs with Google Datastore
      • Service Monitoring
        • Introduction
        • Defining a service to monitor
        • Notifications setup
        • Events automatically managed by Platform
        • Remote Platform servers
        • Knowledge base
        • Adding log programatically
        • Searching for logged data
        • Use cases
    • File Management
    • Export and Import of Metadata
      • Application Metadata Management
    • Trigger writing operations
    • Audit
    • BPM
      • BPMN Introduction
      • BPMN main parts
      • Activiti Setup
      • Platform integration
        • Processes
        • Models
        • Process instances
        • To-do list
        • Process history
      • Process Web Modeler
        • Model Creation
          • Start-End Event
          • Gateways
        • Supported objects
        • Start tasks and user tasks
        • Form properties
          • Important notes
          • Property types
        • Service tasks
          • Web service
          • SQL Query
          • SQL statement
        • Mail task
        • Script task
          • Example : how to get a value previously read from a SQL query
          • Example : how to get the current process instance id
        • Timer events
        • Subprocess and Call Activiti
      • Utility methods available in Platform
        • How to start a process from a JavaScript action
        • How to complete a user task from a JavaScript action
      • An example
        • Processes
        • Instances
        • Activities
        • History
    • Embedded CMS
    • ECM
      • Alfresco
        • Alfresco Introduction
        • Integration between 4WS.Platform and Alfresco
          • Integration at GUI level
          • Integration at model level
          • Integration at authentication and authorizations level
          • Additional features
        • How to use 4WS.Platform and Alfresco together
          • Set the same Identity Management system
          • Define document types and aspects in Alfresco
          • Import the document types and aspects definitions in 4WS.Platform
          • Define document types and aspects in 4WS.Platform
          • Reverse engineering of document types or aspects
          • Definition of business components to fill-in panels
          • Definition of the GUI
          • Additional server-side services
        • Requirements
        • Current limits in 4WS.Platform - Alfresco integration
      • Archiflow
        • Setup
        • Archiflow artifacts
        • How to
    • Lotus Notes Migration Tool
    • NoSQL databases
      • MongoDB
        • MongoDB Introduction
        • Setting up the environment
        • How to create collections
        • How to create business components
        • How to create windows filled with data coming from MongoDB collections
        • Design rules
      • Google Datastore
        • Google Datastore Introduction
        • Setting up the environment
        • How to create entities
        • How to create business components
        • How to create windows filled with data coming from Datastore entities
        • Design rules
    • TensorFlow
    • Web Page Development
      • Pure Web Page Development
      • Google Material Design development
      • Appendix A - a complete example without any lib
      • Appendix B - a complete example with Google MD
    • Jira Integration
    • Platform for GAE
    • SQL errors management
    • Multidimensional pivot grid
    • Quality
      • Automated Web Service Testing
      • Automated unit testing
      • Source code static analysis using ESlint
      • Source code static analysis using SonarQube
  • Troubleshootings
  • Best practises
    • Database design
    • Database maintenance
    • Creating a Web app : common use cases
    • Creating a mobile app : common use cases
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  1. Core features

Defining business components

You can do these through the ways described in these sections:

  • What are business components

  • Business components to fill-in panels

  • Creating business components

    • By a Datastore entity

    • By a MongoDB collection

  • Defining Custom Java Business component

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