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Dynamically Generated Pages

Besides the login page, there are nine types of dynamically-generated pages (or reusable components) in a Direct to Web application:

A query-all page that displays all entities that are currently exposed and lets users construct queries on the attributes (but not the relationships) of those entities; see "Query Pages". This properties of this page cannot be customized.
A query page that allows the user to construct a query for a particular entity; see "Query Pages" .
A list page that displays one or more records of a particular entity in tabular form; see "List Pages and Select Components". The result of a query is always a list page.
An inspect page that displays a single record of a given entity; see "Inspect and Edit Pages".
An edit page that displays a single record of a given entity and also allows you to make changes to the record and save it to the database; see "Inspect and Edit Pages".
A select component that lets users select a record from a list, thereby adding it to a to-many relationship or populating an edit component with it; see "List Pages and Select Components".
A master-detail page consists of a select component and an edit component; it allows you to select and edit a record without having to switch to another page. See "Master-Detail Pages".
An edit-relationship page is a multiple component page for removing and adding objects to a to-many relationship. See "Edit-Relationship Pages".
An error page for displaying information related to exceptions and other errors. This properties of this page cannot be customized.

All pages in your application contain the standard Direct to Web header (defined in PageWrapper.wo) at the top of the page. This header provides a number of controls, described in the following figure.

For best results when navigating through a Direct to Web application, don't use your web browser's backtrack buttons. Instead:

To return to the previous page from an edit or inspect page, click Cancel.
To return to a query page from a list page, select the entity in the Entities pop-up menu and click Build Query.

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