HTML maintenance forms can have custom layouts, but the following sequence of panels is most common:
- Toolbar: This panel is an automatic panel with framework coding that doesn't look like a panel to the user. It contains the buttons that affect the whole form, like Save.
- Main: This panel is automatically created by S3 as a blank panel you configure with controls. Usually, this first available panel is used to add controls for the form object's data. You can divide such a panel into tabs to logically partition data from a single object.
- Child/Children: Child table values are expressed on a maintenance form as a collection, and therefore as a grid. Usually at least one panel houses these grids. Common design is to put all the child information in one panel and divide that panel into tabs, one per grid.
- Audit Information: This panel is an automatic panel with framework coding that doesn't look like a panel to the user. It's a bar at the bottom of the screen with basic information about when the record was created/updated, and by who.
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