Pages, along with
Actions (Actions) are the building blocks of ActiveGrid applications. Each ActiveGrid
Page represents a displayable “web page” in your application. Each
Page is defined in its own file.
Page files are XForm files and they end in the
.xform suffix.
Pages display in AJAX-enabled areas, called
AJAXFrames, that can be refreshed independently. Because the ActiveGrid Server can refresh the content of each
AJAXFrame independently, only the relevant portion of the application page has to be reloaded when the user takes an action.
ActiveGrid Applications all have one Page “container” called the
Page Frame. All the other
Pages in the application are displayed in the main
AJAXFrame within the
Page Frame.
Individual Pages can also contain
AJAXFrames, in which they can display other
Pages. An ActiveGrid “web application page” is typically composed of several independently rendered ActiveGrid
Pages. It can be helpful to think of
Pages as components or
snippets of web pages. The following figure illustrates how
Pages might be displayed in
AJAXFrames “nested” within other
Pages.